Speech-independent production of communicative gestures: Evidence from patients with complete callosal disconnection

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3092-3104

  Lausberg, Hedda ^a,b   Zaidel, Eran ^c   Cruz, Robyn F ^d   Ptito, Alain ^e  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Berlin Gesture Center   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LESLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Co speech gestures; Gesture production; Handedness; Hemispheric specialization; Non verbal communication; Split brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPEECH; SPLIT BRAIN; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH; SPLIT-BRAIN PROCEDURE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548498832     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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