Pure word deafness and the bilateral processing of the speech code

Cognitive Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 679-693

  Poeppel, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory agnosia; Hemispheric asymmetry; Imaging; Lesions; Neural basis of speech; Speech perception; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000999979     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0364-0213(01)00050-7     Document Type: Article

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