How the ventral pathway got lost - And what its recovery might mean

Brain and Language

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 29-39

  Weiller, Cornelius ^a   Bormann, Tobias ^a   Saur, Dorothee ^a   Musso, Mariachristina ^a   Rijntjes, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Dual loop model; Wernicke

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONDUCTION APHASIA; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ECHOLALIA; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INSULA; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING; WERNICKE AREA;

EID: 79957801830     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.01.005     Document Type: Review

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