Determinants of autobiographical memory in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy or excisions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2211-2221

  St Laurent, Marie ^a,b   Moscovitch, Morris ^b,c   Levine, Brian ^b,c   McAndrews, Mary Pat ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Episodic memory; Hippocampus; Multiple Trace Theory; Recollection; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RECALL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66549125655     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.01.032     Document Type: Article

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