A critical period for right hemisphere recruitment in American Sign Language processing

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 76-80

  Newman, Aaron J ^a   Bavelier, Daphne ^b   Corina, David ^c   Jezzard, Peter ^d   Neville, Helen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 0036138435     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn775     Document Type: Article

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