Neuro-anatomical correlates of impaired retrieval of verbs and nouns: Interaction of grammatical class, imageability and actionality

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 175-194

  Aggujaro, Silvia ^a   Crepaldi, Davide ^a   Pistarini, Caterina ^b   Taricco, Mariangela ^c   Luzzatti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c G Salvini General Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actionality; Brain localization; Grammatical class; Imageability; Naming impairment; Noun verb dissociation

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; ITALY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NEUROANATOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33646481957     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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