Infantile amnesia: Forgotten but not gone

Learning and Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 135-139

  Li, Stella ^a   Callaghan, Bridget L ^a   Richardson, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; EXPLICIT MEMORY; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INFANTILE AMNESIA; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGING; ANIMALS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; RATS;

EID: 84896358323     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.031096.113     Document Type: Review

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