Authors

Damasio H. Grabowski TJ. Tranel D. Hichwa RD. Damasio

AR.

Institution

Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and CognitiveNeuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, 52242, USA.

Title

A neural basis for lexical retrieval [see comments] [published erratum appears in Nature 1996 Jun 27;381(6595):810].

Comments

Comment in: Nature 1996 Apr 11;380(6574):485-6

Source

Nature. 380(6574):499-505, 1996 Apr 11.

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 tends to process words for distinct kinds of items.