Semantic paralexias: A group-case study on the underlying functional mechanisms, incidence and clinical features in a consecutive series of 340 Italian aphasics

Brain and Language

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-132

  Ciaghi, Maddalena ^a   Pancheri, Elisa ^a   Miceli, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deep dyslexia; Direct route reading models; Grapheme phoneme correspondence procedures; Lexical semantic system; Middle cerebral artery stroke; Right hemisphere reading; Semantic paralexias; Sublexical conversion mechanisms; Summation hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; LANGUAGE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958151668     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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