Sex hormone testosterone affects language organization in the infant brain

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 283-286

  Friederici, Angela D ^a   Pannekamp, Ann ^a   Partsch, Carl Joachim ^b   Ulmen, Ulrike ^c   Oehler, Klaus ^c   Schmutzler, Renate ^c   Hesse, Volker ^c,d  

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

^b KLINIKUM ESSLINGEN   (Germany)

^c SANA KLINIKUM OFFENBACH   (Germany)

^d Berlin Working Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lateralization; Phonological discrimination; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 40049098984     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f5105a     Document Type: Article

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