Prosodic processing by children: An fMRI study

Brain and Language

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 332-342

  Plante, Elena ^a   Holland, Scott K ^b   Schmithorst, Vince J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Children; fMRI; Language; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 33646386705     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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