Learning letters in adulthood: Direct visualization of cortical plasticity for forming a new link between orthography and phonology

Neuron

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 311-322

  Hashimoto, Ryuichiro ^a,b   Sakai, Kuniyoshi L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SOUND; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH; VOCABULARY; WRITING;

EID: 16544375890     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(04)00196-5     Document Type: Article

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