Is math lateralised on the same side as language? Right hemisphere aphasia and mathematical abilities

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 406, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 285-288

  Semenza, Carlo ^a,b   Delazer, Margarete ^c   Bertella, Laura ^a,b,d   Granà, Alessia ^a   Mori, Ileana ^b   Conti, Fabio M ^d   Pignatti, Riccardo ^a,b   Bartha, Lisa ^c   Domahs, Frank ^e   Benke, Thomas ^c   Mauro, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Clinica Hildebrand   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acalculia; Crossed aphasia; Math abilities; Recursion; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

APHASIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 33748294228     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.063     Document Type: Article

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