Probing the involvement of the right hemisphere in language processing with online transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy volunteers

Aphasiology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1131-1152

  Hartwigsen, Gesa ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Broca; Compensation; Lateralization; Lesion; Speech; Wernicke

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84865833342     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2011.590573     Document Type: Review

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