Inference generation during text comprehension by adults with right hemisphere brain damage: Activation failure versus multiple activation

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1380-1395

  Tompkins, Connie A ^a   Fassbinder, Wiltrud ^a   Blake, Margaret Lehman ^b   Baumgaertner, Annette ^c   Jayaram, Nandini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discourse comprehension; Inference; Language comprehension; Language disorders; Right brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 12144271330     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/103)     Document Type: Article

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