Neural mechanisms of discourse comprehension: A human lesion study

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 277-287

  Barbey, Aron K ^a   Colom, Roberto ^b   Grafman, Jordan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

discourse comprehension; emotional intelligence; personality traits; psychometric intelligence; voxel based lesion symptom mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXTRAVERSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEURAL MECHANISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PERSONALITY TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PSYCHOMETRIC INTELLIGENCE; VOXEL-BASED LESION-SYMPTOM MAPPING;

BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VETERANS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84892724426     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt312     Document Type: Article

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