Is the hippocampus necessary for visual and verbal binding in working memory?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1089-1095

  Baddeley, Alan ^a   Allen, Richard ^b   Vargha Khadem, Faraneh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Chunking; Color shape binding; Short term memory; Verbal redundancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 76749099275     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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