The role of the striatum in sentence processing: Evidence from a priming study in early stages of Huntington's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 174-185

  Teichmann, Marc ^a,b,c,d   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^c,d,e   Cesaro, Pierre ^a,b,c   Bachoud Lévi, Anne Catherine ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^c HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Huntington's disease; Rules; Striatum; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38349014378     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.07.022     Document Type: Article

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