Metaphor comprehension in right brain-damaged patients with visuo-verbal and verbal material: A dissociation (re)considered

Cortex

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 479-490

  Rinaldi, Maria Cristina ^a,b   Marangolo, Paola ^b   Baldassarri, Francesca ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context; Integration; Metaphors; Pragmatics; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LITERATURE; MENTAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISION;

EID: 3142740290     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70141-2     Document Type: Article

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