High-resolution 7t fMRI of human hippocampal subfields during associative learning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1194-1206

  Suthana, Nanthia A ^a   Donix, Markus ^b,c   Wozny, David R ^d   Bazih, Adam ^a   Jones, Michael ^a   Heidemann, Robin M ^e   Trampel, Robert ^e   Ekstrom, Arne D ^f   Scharf, Maria ^b,c   Knowlton, Barbara ^a   Turner, Robert ^e   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SUBICULUM; BRAIN MAPPING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928708891     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00772     Document Type: Article

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