Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-288

  Robson, Holly ^a   Keidel, James L ^b   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a   Sage, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory discrimination; Comprehension; Phonology; Semantics; Wernicke's Aphasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA, WERNICKE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855872619     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.022     Document Type: Article

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