Contribution of prior semantic knowledge to new episodic learning in amnesia

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 938-944

  Kan, Irene P ^a,b   Alexander, Michael P ^c   Verfaellie, Mieke ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 66049089991     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21066     Document Type: Article

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