Lateralization of affective prosody in brain and the callosal integration of hemispheric language functions

Brain and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-54

  Ross, Elliott D ^a,c   Thompson, Robin D ^b   Yenkosky, Joseph ^b  

^a UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Southeast Campus   (United States)

^b NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030928468     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1997.1731     Document Type: Article

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