Not so fast: Hippocampal amnesia slows word learning despite successful fast mapping

Hippocampus

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 920-933

  Warren, David E ^a   Duff, Melissa C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Lexicon; Medial temporal lobe; Memory; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE MOVEMENT; FAST MAPPING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCULOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AMNESIA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84904263335     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22279     Document Type: Article

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