Semantic event-related potential components reflect severity of comprehension deficits in aphasia

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 282-289

  Kawohl, W ^a   Bunse, S ^b   Willmes, K ^b   Hoffrogge, A ^b   Buchner, H ^c   Huber, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Event related potential; N400; P300; Stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION DEFICIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; APHASIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 77749252734     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968309348311     Document Type: Article

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