Empathy in hippocampal amnesia

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Beadle, J N ^a   Tranel, D ^a   Cohen, N J ^b   Duff, M C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; Empathy; Hippocampus; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878794606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00069     Document Type: Article

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