Hippocampal amnesia impairs all manner of relational memory

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2008, Pages

  Konkel, Alex ^a   Warren, David E ^a   Duff, Melissa C ^b   Tranel, Daniel N ^b   Cohen, Neal J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Hippocampus; Relational memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949126750     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.015.2008     Document Type: Article

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