The failure of language comprehension at sentence and phrasal levels in a patient who can speak normally

Cortex

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 435-444

  Warrington, Elizabeth K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language; Sentence comprehension; Sentence production

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STROKE;

EID: 0033918622     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70852-9     Document Type: Article

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