Memory for items and relationships among items embedded in realistic scenes: Disproportionate relational memory impairments in amnesia

Neuropsychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 126-138

  Hannula, Deborah E ^a   Tranel, Daniel ^b   Allen, John S ^c   Kirchhoff, Brenda A ^d   Nickel, Allison E ^a   Cohen, Neal J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Item memory; Medial temporal lobe; Relational memory; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; GROUP DYNAMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; ITEM MEMORY; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RELATIONAL MEMORY; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AMNESIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84925962068     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/neu0000119     Document Type: Article

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