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A neural basis for lexical retrieval
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A neural basis for lexical retrieval

Hanna Damasio, Thomas J Grabowski, Daniel Tranel, Richard D Hichwa and Antonio R Damasio
Nature (London), Vol.380(6574), pp.499-505
04/11/1996
DOI: 10.1038/380499a0
PMID: 8606767

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Abstract

Two parallel studies using positron emission tomography, one conducted in neurological patients with brain lesions, the other in normal individuals, indicate that the normal process of retrieving words that denote concrete entities depends in part on multiple regions of the left cerebral hemisphere, located outside the classic language areas. Moreover, anatomically separable regions tend to process words for distinct kinds of items.

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