Mechanisms of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-58

  Lavidor, Michal ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facilitation, inhibition processes; Hemispheric collaboration; Lesion studies; LH in language processing; Mechanisms of hemispheric specialization; TMS modes, stimulation protocols; TMS principles; TMS protocols, in picture naming task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886325234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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