Morphological Structure and Hemispheric Functioning: The Contribution of the Right Hemisphere to Reading in Different Languages

Neuropsychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 470-484

  Eviatar, Zohar ^a   Ibrahim, Raphiq ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabic; Hebrew; interhemispheric integration; language morphology; lexical decision

Indexed keywords

ARABIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ENGLISH LANGUAGE; HEBREW; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34548183301     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.21.4.470     Document Type: Article

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