Role of the left hemisphere in sign language comprehension

Brain and Language

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-178

  Hickok, Gregory ^a   Love Geffen, Tracy ^b   Klima, Edward S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGN LANGUAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

APHASIA; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036314359     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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