Impaired category fluency in medial temporal lobe amnesia: The role of episodic memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 10900-10908

  Greenberg, Daniel L ^a   Keane, Margaret M ^a,b   Ryan, Lee ^c   Verfaellie, Mieke ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEUROIMAGING; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNESIA; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 69749109588     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1202-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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