The role of the right hemisphere for language in schizophrenia

Language Lateralization and Psychosis

Volumn 9780521882842, Issue , 2009, Pages 147-156

  Rapp, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511576744.011     Document Type: Chapter

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