Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 172, Issue 1 , Pages 24-30 , 30 April 2009

The role of the hippocampus in transitive inference

  • Martin Zalesak

      Affiliations

    • The Harvard—MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
    • ,
  • Stephan Heckers

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, 1601 23rd Avenue South, Room 3060, Nashville, TN 37212, United States. Tel.: +1 615 322 2665; fax: +1 615 343 8400.

Received 18 January 2008 ,Revised 8 September 2008 ,Accepted 16 September 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.09.008

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 172, Issue 1 , Pages 24-30 , 30 April 2009

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