Item, context and relational episodic encoding in humans

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 693-700

  Davachi, Lila ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY; MODEL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 33751309111     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2006.10.012     Document Type: Review

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