Electrophysiological manifestations of open- and closed-class words in patients with Broca's aphasia with agrammatic comprehension: An event-related brain potential study

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 839-854

  Keurs, Mariken Ter ^a,b   Brown, Colin M ^a   Hagoort, Peter ^a   Stegeman, Dick F ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broca's aphasia with agrammatic comprehension; Event related brain potential; Lexical processing; Open and closed class words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SPEECH ARTICULATION; WAVEFORM; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0345711733     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.5.839     Document Type: Article

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