Neurological distribution of processing resources underlying language comprehension

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 174-184

  Swinney, David ^a   Zurif, Edgar ^b   Prather, Penny ^c   Love, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NEUROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0029927757     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.2.174     Document Type: Article

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