Irony comprehension and theory of mind deficits in patients with Parkinson's disease

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 972-981

  Monetta, Laura ^a,c   Grindrod, Christopher M ^b   Pell, Marc D ^c  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fronto striatal mechanisms; Neurogenic language impairment; Nonliteral language; Parkinson's disease; Pragmatics; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649306824     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.02.021     Document Type: Article

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