Procedural learning difficulties: reuniting the developmental disorders?

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 135-141

  Nicolson, Roderick I ^a   Fawcett, Angela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL RETENTION; SYMPTOM;

BRAIN; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; NERVE NET;

EID: 33947600705     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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