Word comprehension: The distinction between refractory and storage impairments

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 611-625

  Warrington, Elizabeth K ^a   Cipolotti, Lisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Dysphasia; Refractoriness storage; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DYSPHASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; APHASIA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEMANTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029892005     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.2.611     Document Type: Article

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