Number words are special: Evidence from a case of primary progressive aphasia

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-37

  Domahs, Frank ^a,b   Bartha, Lisa ^c   Lochy, Aliette ^c,d   Benke, Thomas ^c   Delazer, Margarete ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Neurochirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lexical impairment; Numerals; Primary progressive aphasia; Transcoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 29744456050     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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