Semantic Processing in the Right Hemisphere May Contribute to Drawing Inferences from Discourse

Brain and Language

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 80-120

  Beeman, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LATERALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0027462938     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1993.1006     Document Type: Article

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