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When "Happy" Means "Sad": Neuropsychological Evidence for the Right Prefrontal Cortex Contribution to Executive Semantic Processing
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Samson, Dana; Connolly, Catherine; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Neuropsychologia, 2007
The contribution of the left inferior prefrontal cortex in semantic processing has been widely investigated in the last decade. Converging evidence from functional imaging studies shows that this region is involved in the "executive" or "controlled" aspects of semantic processing. In this study, we report a single case study of a patient, PW, with…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Neurological Organization, Case Studies