Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 1005-1015 , September 2010

Functional neuroanatomy of the encoding and retrieval processes of verbal episodic memory in MCI

  • Francis Clément

      Affiliations

    • Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Canada
    • Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Research Center, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, 4565 Queen Mary, Montreal, H3W 1W5 Quebec, Canada.
    • ,
  • Sylvie Belleville

      Affiliations

    • Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Canada
    • Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Research Center, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, 4565 Queen Mary, Montreal, H3W 1W5 Quebec, Canada.
    • ,
  • Samira Mellah

      Affiliations

    • Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Canada

Received 22 September 2008 ,Revised 16 April 2009 ,Accepted 6 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.07.003

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