The neural organization of spatial thought and language

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 226-238

  Chatterjee, Anjan ^a,b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Prepositions; Spatial language; Spatial representations; Thought; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL THOUGHT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THINKING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NERVE NET; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; THINKING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 56749149834     PISSN: 07340478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1082886     Document Type: Article

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