A componential analysis of proverb interpretation in patients with frontal lobe epilepsy and temporal lobe epilepsy: Relationships with disease-related factors

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 480-496

  McDonald, Carrie R ^a,b,e   Delis, Dean C ^a,b   Kramer, Joel H ^c   Tecoma, Evelyn S ^a,d   Iragui, Vicente J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Executive functions; Metaphoric language; Nonliteral language; Seizure disorder; Verbal abstract reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 45949099130     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040701363828     Document Type: Article

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