Social narratives in agenesis of the corpus callosum: Linguistic analysis of the Thematic Apperception Test

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-50

  Turk, Anne A ^a   Brown, Warren S ^a   Symington, Melissa ^a   Paul, Lynn K ^a  

^a FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital; Emotion; Grammar; Imagination; Inference; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NARRATIVE; PERSONALITY TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACROCALLOSAL SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71549123982     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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