"Where to?" Remote memory for spatial relations and landmark identity in former taxi drivers with Alzheimer's disease and encephalitis

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 446-462

  Rosenbaum, R Shayna ^a,b,d   Gao, Fuqiang ^c   Richards, Brian ^a   Black, Sandra E ^a,c   Moscovitch, Morris ^a,b  

^a BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; ENCEPHALITIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CAPACITY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COGNITION; ENCEPHALITIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 14944344766     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929053279496     Document Type: Article

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