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Eli Vakil1, Tal Raz, Daniel A Levy

  • 1Department of Psychology and Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. vakile@mail.biu.ac.il

Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition. Section B, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition
|May 7, 2010
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Context effects on episodic memory rely on medial temporal lobe processes, not frontal lobe functions. Memory binding is impaired by delays, highlighting the medial temporal lobe's role in memory context.

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