Access to knowledge from pictures but not words in a patient with progressive fluent aphasia

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 725-757

  Saffran, Eleanor M ^a   Branch Coslett, H ^b,d   Martin, Nadine ^a   Boronat, Consuelo B ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Dept of Neurology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; HEARING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 0242407606     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960344000107     Document Type: Review

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