Intact learning of new relations in amnesia as achieved through unitization

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9601-9613

  Ryan, Jennifer D ^a,b   Moses, Sandra N ^a,b,c   Barense, Morgan ^a,b   Shayna Rosenbaum, R ^a,d  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLICIT MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAINING; UNITIZATION;

AGED; AMNESIA; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84878497570     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0169-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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