Speech perceived through a damaged temporal window: Lessons from word deafness and aphasia

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 239-252

  Stefanatos, Gerry A ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Epilepsy; Landau Kleffner syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STEADY STATE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD DEAFNESS;

ADULT; APHASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 56749183978     PISSN: 07340478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1082887     Document Type: Article

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