Navigation around London by a taxi driver with bilateral hippocampal lesions

Brain

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2894-2907

  Maguire, Eleanor A ^a   Nannery, Rory ^a   Spiers, Hugo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Navigation; Remote memory; Taxi driver; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AGED; AMNESIA; ANAMNESIS; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; BILATERAL HIPPOCAMPAL LESION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33750593044     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl286     Document Type: Article

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