The Neural Basis of Language Development and Its Impairment

Neuron

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 941-952

  Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NEUROLOGY; PHONETICS; PNEUMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS;

EID: 33845409811     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.12.002     Document Type: Review

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