Text comprehension after brain injury: Left prefrontal lesions affect inference processes

Neuropsychology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 292-308

  Ferstl, Evelyn C ^a   Guthke, Thomas ^b   Von Cramon, D Yves ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERROR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035996006     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.16.3.292     Document Type: Article

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