Phonological processing in deaf signers and the impact of age of first language acquisition

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1369-1379

  MacSweeney, Mairéad ^a,b   Waters, Dafydd ^a,b   Brammer, Michael J ^c   Woll, Bencie ^b   Goswami, Usha ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Deafness   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Deaf; Inferior frontal gyrus; Phonological awareness; Phonology; Pictures; Plasticity; Rhyming; Sign language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIGN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; AGING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 40849125471     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.047     Document Type: Article

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