The evolution of episodic memory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue SUPPL2, 2013, Pages 10379-10386

  Allen, Timothy A ^a   Fortin, Norbert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Parahippocampal region; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN REGION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMAL MODELS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL REGION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMNIOTA; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879318554     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301199110     Document Type: Article

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