Short-term retention of relational memory in amnesia revisited: Accurate performance depends on hippocampal integrity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Yee, Lydia T S ^a   Hannula, Deborah E ^b   Tranel, Daniel ^c   Cohen, Neal J ^d  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Amnesia; Delayed recognition; Hippocampus; Relational memory; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE AGED; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84892975424     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00016     Document Type: Article

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