Adaptive significance of right hemisphere activation in aphasic language comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1248-1259

  Meltzer, Jed A ^a,b   Wagage, Suraji ^b   Ryder, Jennifer ^c   Solomon, Beth ^c   Braun, Allen R ^b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Language; Magnetoencephalography; Stroke; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84877838200     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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