Dissociating short-term memory and language impairment: The importance of item and serial order information

Aphasiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 355-382

  Attout, Lucie ^a   van der Kaa, Marie Anne ^b   George, Mercédès ^b   Majerus, Steve ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Fund for Scientific Research FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSOCIATION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHONEME; PHONETICS; READING; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84858255026     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2011.604303     Document Type: Article

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