Storage costs and heuristics interact to produce patterns of aphasic sentence comprehension performa

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Clark, David Glenn ^a,b  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Semantics; Sentence comprehension; Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867074791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00135     Document Type: Article

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