The propositional structure of discourse in the two cerebral hemispheres

Brain and Language

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 383-394

  Long, Debra L ^a   Baynes, Kathleen ^b   Prat, Chantel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse processing; Language representation; Laterality; Left hemisphere; Neurolinguistics; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 27844593346     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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