Language, perception, and the schematic representation of spatial relations

Brain and Language

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 226-236

  Amorapanth, Prin ^b   Kranjec, Alexander ^a,b   Bromberger, Bianca ^b   Lehet, Matthew ^b   Widick, Page ^b   Woods, Adam J ^b   Kimberg, Daniel Y ^b   Chatterjee, Anjan ^b  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemispheric specialization; Lesion studies; Semantics; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE DEFICIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PICTURE PICTURE TASK; PICTURE SCHEMA TASK; RIGHT HEMISPHERE DEFICIT; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD PICTURE TASK; WORD SCHEMA TASK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COGNITION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858006127     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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