The cognitive neuroscience of remote episodic, semantic and spatial memory

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-190

  Moscovitch, Morris ^a   Nadel, Lynn ^b   Winocur, Gordon ^c   Gilboa, Asaf ^d   Rosenbaum, R Shayna ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY;

AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; ANIMALS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; NEUROSCIENCES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645807857     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2006.03.013     Document Type: Review

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