Temporal lobe epilepsy as a model to understand human memory: The distinction between explicit and implicit memory

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-13

  Leritz, Elizabeth C ^a,b   Grande, Laura J ^a,c   Bauer, Russell M ^d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobectomy; Associative memory; Explicit memory; Hippocampus; Implicit memory; Medial temporal lobe; Relational memory; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREDICTION; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33745860973     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2006.04.012     Document Type: Review

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