Bigger is better! Hippocampal volume and declarative memory performance in healthy young men

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 255-267

  Pohlack, Sebastian T ^a   Meyer, Patric ^a   Cacciaglia, Raffaele ^a   Liebscher, Claudia ^a   Ridder, Stephanie ^a   Flor, Herta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consolidation; CVLT; Declarative memory; Hippocampal volume; Recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA VOLUME; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DISCRIMINABILITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPAL VOLUME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING TEST; LONG DELAY RETENTION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT DELAY RETENTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; COHORT STUDIES; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892371870     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0497-z     Document Type: Article

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