H.M.'s personal crossword puzzles: Understanding memory and language

Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-96

  Skotko, Brian ^a   Rubin, David ^a   Tupler, Larry ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ERROR; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SKILL; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSCIENCES; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 39749114843     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701864580     Document Type: Article

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