Compensating for language deficits in amnesia II: H.M.'s spared versus impaired encoding categories

Brain Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 415-459

  MacKay, Donald G ^a   Johnson, Laura W ^a   Hadley, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesic H.M.; Compensation strategies in amnesia; Encoding versus retrieval errors; Language deficits in amnesia; Sentence planning; Spared encoding categories

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; ERROR; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 84886238247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci3020415     Document Type: Article

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