Damage to temporo-parietal cortex decreases incidental activation of thematic relations during spoken word comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1990-1997

  Mirman, Daniel ^a   Graziano, Kristen M ^a  

^a MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Eye tracking; Semantic deficit; Semantic knowledge; Thematic relation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84862886583     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.024     Document Type: Article

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