Neurolinguistic and follow-up study of an unusual pattern of recovery from bilingual subcortical aphasia

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1551-1564

  Aglioti, Salvatore ^a   Beltramello, Alberto ^a   Girardi, Flavia ^a   Fabbro, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Bilingualism; Implicit and explicit memory; Subcortical aphasia

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STROKE;

EID: 0029969780     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.5.1551     Document Type: Article

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