Spoken sentence comprehension in aphasia: Event-related potential evidence for a lexical integration deficit

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-66

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0030952261     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1997.9.1.39     Document Type: Article

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