The human hippocampus beyond the cognitive map: Evidence from a densely amnesic patient

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-18

  Banta Lavenex, Pamela A ^a   Lavenex, Pierre ^a,c   Colombo, Françoise ^b   Lambert, Farfalla Ribordy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Declarative memory; Interference; Medial temporal lobe; Memory capacity; Parahippocampal; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL TASK; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933677194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00711     Document Type: Article

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