Neuroanatomical Correlates of Category-specific Semantic Disorders: A Critical Survey

Memory

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 1995, Pages 247-263

  Gainotti, Guido ^a   Silveri, Maria Caterina ^a   Daniele, Antonio ^a   Giustolisi, Laura ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

APHASIA, BROCA; APHASIA, WERNICKE; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0029366528     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658219508253153     Document Type: Article

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