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Direct linkLiegeois, Frederique; Cross, J. Helen; Polkey, Charles; Harkness, William; Vargha-Khadem, Faraneh – Neuropsychologia, 2008
After hemispherectomy (removal or disconnection of an entire cerebral hemisphere) in childhood for treatment of intractable epilepsy, gross speech and language functions are often rescued. Whether more complex functions, such as syntactic processing, are selectively impaired, remains controversial. Here we present a cross-sectional study of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Epilepsy, Semantics, Surgery
