Episodic memory and event construction in aging and amnesia

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 270-284

  Romero, Kristoffer ^a   Moscovitch, Morris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Binding; Coherence; Encoding; Hippocampus; Imagination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864004942     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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