An association between human hippocampal volume and topographical memory in healthy young adults

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Hartley, Tom ^a   Harlow, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gray matter; Insula; Spatial memory; Temporal lobe; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEOCORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBCORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84933675978     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00338     Document Type: Article

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