Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 630-640 , May 2009

Category-specific recognition and naming deficits following resection of a right anterior temporal lobe tumor in a patient with atypical language lateralization

  • Daniel L. Drane

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • UW Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Neuropsychology Laboratory, UW Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359745, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.
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  • George A. Ojemann

      Affiliations

    • UW Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Jeffrey G. Ojemann

      Affiliations

    • UW Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Elizabeth Aylward

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Daniel L. Silbergeld

      Affiliations

    • UW Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • John W. Miller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • UW Regional Epilepsy Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Daniel Tranel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA

Received 15 June 2007 ,Revised 23 January 2008 ,Accepted 7 April 2008.

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PII: S0010-9452(08)00138-X

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.04.007

Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 630-640 , May 2009

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