Dissociation: Cognitive capacity or dysfunction?

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 115-134

  de Ruiter, Michiel B ^a   Elzinga, Bernet M ^b   Phaf, R Hans ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Construction; Dissociation; Elaboration; Episodic memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MEMORY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33845531397     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J229v07n04_07     Document Type: Review

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