Profound loss of general knowledge in retrograde amnesia: Evidence from an amnesic artist

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Gregory, Emma ^a   McCloskey, Michael ^a   Landau, Barbara ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain damage; General world knowledge; Memory; Retrograde amnesia; Single case study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY INTERVIEW; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERFORMING ARTIST; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; SELF REPORT; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

EID: 84899808744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00287     Document Type: Article

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