Understanding 'not': Neuropsychological dissociations between hand and head markers of negation in BSL

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 214-229

  Atkinson, Jo ^a   Campbell, Ruth ^b   Marshall, Jane ^a   Thacker, Alice ^c   Woll, Bencie ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Face processing; Gesture; Prosody; Sign language; Speechreading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAND; HEAD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 0345256299     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00186-6     Document Type: Article

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