Making requests: Illustrations of how right-hemisphere brain damage can affect discourse production

Brain and Language

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 442-465

  Brownell, Hiram ^a   Stringfellow, Andrew ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; ROLE PLAYING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH;

EID: 0032812652     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1999.2122     Document Type: Article

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