Aphasic deficits in syntactic processing

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 797-804

  Caplan, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic comprehension disorders

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; APHASIA; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; COMPREHENSION; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PHONETICS; REVIEW; WORKING MEMORY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

APHASIA; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34248633359     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70420-9     Document Type: Article

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