Semantic representations of word meanings by the cerebral hemispheres

Brain and Language

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 393-420

  Ince, Elizabeth ^a   Christman, Stephen D ^b  

^a RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral asymmetry; Hemisphere(s); Laterality; Low frequency words; Meaning acquisition; Metacontrol; Partial knowledge; Priming; Semantic representation(s); Word knowledge; Word meaning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; SCIENCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

EID: 0036068073     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.2001.2599     Document Type: Article

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