Hemispheric asymmetry in the processing of negative and positive emotional inferences

Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain: Inference and Comprehension Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 355-378

  Tapiero, Isabelle ^a   Filion, Virginie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

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EID: 84899156569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203936443     Document Type: Chapter

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