The basal ganglia and semantic engagement: Potential insights from semantic priming in individuals with subcortical vascular lesions, Parkinson's disease, and cortical lesions

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1041-1052

  Copland, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Language; Lexical ambiguity; Parkinson's disease; Semantic inhibition; Semantic priming; Subcortical; Subcortical aphasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASAL GANGLION; BASAL GANGLION HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MONEY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEMANTICS; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULAR LESION;

EID: 0242391765     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617703970081     Document Type: Article

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