Lateralized cerebellar contributions to word generation: A phonemic and semantic fluency study

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-37

  Schweizer, Tom A ^a,b,c   Alexander, Michael P ^d,e   Susan Gillingham, B A ^d   Cusimano, Michael ^a,b,c   Stuss, Donald T ^d,f  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONEMICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 77955718660     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/102421     Document Type: Article

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