Spatial deficits in an amnesic patient with hippocampal damage: Questioning the multiple trace theory

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1313-1324

  Gomez, A ^a   Rousset, S ^a   Charnallet, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Episodic memory; Navigation; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AMNESIA; CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861340105     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20968     Document Type: Article

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