Intact discourse cohesion and coherence following bilateral ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Brain and Language

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 222-227

  Kurczek, Jake ^a,b   Duff, Melissa C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Cohesion; Discourse; Referential processing; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE COHESION AND COHERENCE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH;

EID: 84869505608     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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