Neural mechanisms of verb argument structure processing in agrammatic aphasic and healthy age-matched listeners

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1993-2011

  Thompson, Cynthia K ^a   Bonakdarpour, Borna ^a   Fix, Stephen F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA, BROCA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; STROKE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 77955844685     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21334     Document Type: Article

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