Neural correlates for the acquisition of natural language syntax

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 700-709

  Tettamanti, Marco ^a,b   Alkadhi, Hatem ^b   Moro, Andrea ^c   Perani, Daniela ^c,d   Kollias, Spyros ^b   Weniger, Dorothea ^b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036420591     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(02)91201-2     Document Type: Article

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