A novel, implicit treatment for language comprehension processes in right hemisphere brain damage: Phase I data

Aphasiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6-7, 2011, Pages 789-799

  Tompkins, Connie A ^a   Blake, Margaret T ^b   Wambaugh, Julie ^c   Meigh, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse coding; Discourse comprehension; Language treatment; Right brain damage; Suppression

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COARSE SEMANTIC CODING; CODING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH THERAPY; SUPPRESSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79958803360     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2010.539784     Document Type: Article

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