Letter and category fluency in patients with frontal lobe lesions

Neuropsychology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 259-267

  Baldo, Juliana V ^a   Shimamura, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY; MENINGIOMA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STROKE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031967921     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.12.2.259     Document Type: Article

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