When "Crack walnuts" lies in different brain regions: Evidence from a voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 433-442

  Piras, Fabrizio ^a,b   Marangolo, Paola ^c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Compound words; Grammatical categories; Lexicon; Naming; VLSM

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY;

APHASIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77952544056     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617710000068     Document Type: Article

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