Memory, simple and complex language, and the temporal lobe

Brain and Language

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-29

  Brockway, John P ^a,b,c   Follmer, Ronald L ^a,b,d   Preuss, Laura A ^e   Prioleau, Caroline E ^f   Burrows, Georgina S ^a,b   Solsrud, Kristin A ^a,b   Cooke, Carla N ^d   Greenhoot, Jerry H ^g   Howard, John ^h  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Carolina Medical Center   (United States)

^c Memory Testing Corporation   (United States)

^d MemTestCorp ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^g Charlotte Neurosurgical PA   (United States)

^h Charlotte Radiology PA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobectomy; Complex language; Connected discourse, inferences; Epilepsy; Medial temporal lobe; Memory; Recall; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MEMORY; RECALL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0031799727     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1997.1844     Document Type: Article

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