The anterior temporal lobes support residual comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia

Brain

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 931-943

  Robson, Holly ^a,b   Zahn, Roland ^a,c   Keidel, James L ^d   Binney, Richard J ^a   Sage, Karen ^a,e   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anterior temporal lobe; language comprehension; semantic processing; Wernicke's aphasia; Wernicke's area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERY ELDERLY; WERNICKE AREA;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; SEMANTIC PROCESSING; WERNICKE'S APHASIA; WERNICKE'S AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA, WERNICKE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84894554703     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt373     Document Type: Article

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