Imagining other people's experiences in a person with impaired episodic memory: The role of personal familiarity

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Rabin, Jennifer S ^a   Carson, Nicole ^a   Gilboa, Asaf ^b,c,d   Stuss, Donald T ^b,c,e,f   Rosenbaum, R Shayna ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

^e Ontario Brain Institute   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Episodic memory; Hippocampus; Social cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874720025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00588     Document Type: Article

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