Long-term memory is the representational basis for semantic verbal short-term memory

Psychophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 643-653

  Cameron, Katherine A ^a   Haarmann, Henk J ^b   Grafman, Jordan ^c   Ruchkin, Daniel S ^c,d,e  

^a WASHINGTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; Event related potentials; Long term memory; Semantic; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERBAL MEMORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33644875555     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00357.x     Document Type: Article

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