Unilateral brain damage effects on processing homonymous and polysemous words

Brain and Language

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 308-326

  Klepousniotou, Ekaterini ^a   Baum, Shari R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Homonymy; Left hemisphere damage; Lexical ambiguity; Metaphor; Metonymy; Right hemisphere damage; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; OBSERVATION; PREDICTION; RABBIT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 18144410629     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.10.011     Document Type: Article

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