Face-Name Association Learning and Brain Structural Substrates in Alcoholism

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1171-1179

  Pitel, Anne Lise ^a   Chanraud, Sandra ^a,b   Rohlfing, Torsten ^b   Pfefferbaum, Adolf ^b   Sullivan, Edith V ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Associative learning; Depth of processing; Memory; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CALCARINE SULCUS; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84863775587     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2011.01731.x     Document Type: Article

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