Living in the moment: Patients with MTL amnesia can richly describe the present despite deficits in past and future thought

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1764-1766

  Race, Elizabeth ^a   Keane, Margaret M ^a,b   Verfaellie, Mieke ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE AMNESIA; PERCEPTION; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; THINKING;

EID: 84878926050     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.02.010     Document Type: Letter

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