Location of lesions in stroke patients with deficits in syntactic processing in sentence comprehension

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 933-949

  Caplan, David ^a,b   Hildebrandt, Nancy ^a   Makris, Nikos ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Neuropsychology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Localization of language functions; Localization of syntactic processing; Syntactic comprehension deficits; Syntactic comprehension in stroke patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STROKE; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029989070     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.3.933     Document Type: Article

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