Why bilateral damage is worse than unilateral damage to the brain

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2107-2123

  Schapiro, Anna C ^a,b   McClelland, James L ^a   Welbourne, Stephen R ^c   Rogers, Timothy T ^d   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BILATERAL BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MEMORY; MODEL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORY SYSTEM; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNILATERAL BRAIN DAMAGE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 84880839402     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00441     Document Type: Article

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