Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and the animate/ inanimate effect

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 485-504

  Bi, Yanchao ^a,b   Han, Zaizhu ^a   Shu, Hua ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^b,c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

APHASIA; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; SENSATION DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34547855467     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290701502391     Document Type: Article

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