Elucidating the nature of deregulated semantic cognition in semantic aphasia: Evidence for the roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal cortices

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1597-1613

  Noonan, Krist A ^a   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^b   Corbett, Faye ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC APHASIA; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

APHASIA; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77952501142     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21289     Document Type: Article

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