Lesions affecting the right hippocampal formation differentially impair short-term memory of spatial and nonspatial associations

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 309-318

  Braun, Mischa ^a   Weinrich, Christiane ^a   Finke, Carsten ^a   Ostendorf, Florian ^a   Lehmann, Thomas Nicolas ^a   Ploner, Christoph J ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Hippocampus; Medial temporal lobe; Relational memory; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79951901443     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20752     Document Type: Article

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