Sign language aphasia due to left occipital lesion in a deaf signer

Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1466-1468

  Saito, Kozue ^a,c   Otsuki, Mika ^b   Ueno, Satoshi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; APHASIA, WERNICKE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DEAFNESS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34848812631     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000277455.08067.9c     Document Type: Article

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