The cerebellum and language: The story so far

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 165-170

  De Smet, Hyo Jung ^a   Baillieux, Hanne ^a   De Deyn, Peter P ^c,d   Mariën, Peter ^a,c,d   Paquier, Philippe ^a,b,e,f  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebellum, language; Linguistic abilities; Linguistic functions

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSLEXIA; FLUENCY DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; WRITING;

CEREBELLUM; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34447304862     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000102927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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