What's left to learn about right hemisphere damage and pragmatic impairment?

Aphasiology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 872-889

  Weed, Ethan ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Lateralisation; Pragmatic impairment; Pragmatics; Right hemisphere damage

Indexed keywords

ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUTISM; BRAIN DAMAGE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING THEORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; THEORY OF MIND; THEORY VALIDATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VISION;

EID: 79960360731     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2010.545423     Document Type: Review

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