Collaboration between the hemispheres of a callosotomy patient. Emerging right hemisphere speech and the left hemisphere interpreter

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1255-1262

  Gazzaniga, Michael S ^a,b   Eliassen, James C ^a   Nisenson, Laura ^a   Wessinger, C Mark ^a   Fendrich, Robert ^a   Baynes, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Interpreter; Right hemisphere speech; Split brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALLOSTOMY; CASE REPORT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH; SPLIT BRAIN;

EID: 0029741994     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.4.1255     Document Type: Article

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