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SUBMITTER: Vuong LC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2999637 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vuong Loan C LC Martin Randi C RC
Brain and language 20101023 1
The role of attentional control in lexical ambiguity resolution was examined in two patients with damage to the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) and one control patient with non-LIFG damage. Experiment 1 confirmed that the LIFG patients had attentional control deficits compared to normal controls while the non-LIFG patient was relatively unimpaired. Experiment 2 showed that all three patients did as well as normal controls in using biasing sentence context to resolve lexical ambiguities involv ...[more]