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Original Articles

Visual cognition in amnesic H.M.: Selective deficits on the What's-Wrong-Here and Hidden-Figure tasks

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Pages 769-789 | Received 20 Jul 2008, Accepted 22 Sep 2008, Published online: 10 Sep 2009

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