Word deafness as a cortical auditory processing deficit: A case report with MEG

Neurocase

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 307-316

  Jörgens, Silke ^a,b   Biermann Ruben, Katja ^a,c   Kurz, Martin W ^a   Flügel, Claudia ^a   Kurz, Kathinka Daehli ^a   Antke, Christina ^a   Hartung, Hans Peter ^a   Seitz, Rudiger J ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Imaging; ME; Temporal processing; Word deafness

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LIP READING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DISORDER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD DEAFNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; APHASIA; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 52249098638     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790802363738     Document Type: Article

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