Age of acquisition modulates neural activity for both regular and irregular syntactic functions

NeuroImage

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 912-923

  Hernandez, Arturo E ^a   Hofmann, Juliane ^b   Kotz, Sonja A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34250189480     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.055     Document Type: Article

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