Processing of semantic radicals in writing Chinese characters: Data from a Chinese dysgraphic patient

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 0885-903

  Law, Sam Po ^a   Yeung, Olivia ^a   Wong, Winsy ^a   Chiu, Karen M Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TUNG WAH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BOOK; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 27744547889     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290442000392     Document Type: Article

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