Encoding and retrieval in episodic memory: Insights from fMRI

The Wiley Handbook on The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 84-107

  Rugg, Michael D ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey D ^b   Uncapher, Melina R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding; Episodic memory; fMRI; Hippocampus; Recollection; Reinstatement; Retrieval; Study test overlap; Transfer appropriate processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85100694854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118332634.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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