Anatomical correlates of foreign speech sound production

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 929-934

  Golestani, Narly ^a,b   Pallier, Christophe ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain anatomy; Left insula; Speech articulation; Voxel based morphometry; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FRANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; STATISTICS;

EID: 33846838049     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl003     Document Type: Article

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