The role of Broca's area in speech perception: Evidence from aphasia revisited

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 214-220

  Hickok, Gregory ^a   Costanzo, Maddalena ^b   Capasso, Rita ^b,c   Miceli, Gabriele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Broca's area; Mirror neurons; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR SYSTEM; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA, BROCA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80054093532     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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