Faces are special but not too special: Spared face recognition in amnesia is based on familiarity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3941-3948

  Aly, Mariam ^a   Knight, Robert T ^b   Yonelinas, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Episodic memory; Face recognition; Familiarity; Recollection; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FACE MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNESIA; BRAIN; FACE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE;

EID: 78149409106     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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