Thematic role assignment in patients with Broca's aphasia: Sentence-picture matching electrified

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 716-740

  Wassenaar, Marlies ^a,b   Hagoort, Peter ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broca's aphasia; Event related brain potentials; P600; Sentence picture matching; Thematic role assignment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTENCE PICTURE MATCHING; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; THEMATIC ROLE ASSIGNMENT; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA, BROCA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33845641387     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.08.016     Document Type: Article

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