Central versus lateral presentation in hemispheric sentence processing: A paradoxical finding

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2907-2917

  Coney, Jeffrey ^a   Judge, Kerry ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaphor; CMLP; Facilitation; Filler Gap; Hemispheric interaction; Syntactic reactivation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA FOVEA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33749441499     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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