Aphasic sentence comprehension as a resource deficit: A computational approach

Brain and Language

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 76-120

  Haarmann, Henk J ^b   Just, Marcel Adam ^a   Carpenter, Patricia A ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANGUAGE; MEMORY;

EID: 0031214727     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1997.1814     Document Type: Article

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