Bilingualism and memory: Early 19th century ideas about the significance of polyglot aphasia

Cortex

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 658-666

  Lorch, Marjorie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual aphasia; History of neuroscience; Memory; Pitres; Ribot

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 34447304101     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70495-7     Document Type: Article

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