Lexical-semantic event-related potential effects in patients with left hemisphere lesions and aphasia, and patients with right hemisphere lesions without aphasia

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 627-649

  Hagoort, Peter ^a   Brown, Colin M ^a   Swaab, Tamara Y ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Event related brain potentials; Lexical semantic processing; N400; Right hemisphere semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0029924324     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.2.627     Document Type: Article

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