Neural substrates of language acquisition

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue , 2008, Pages 511-534

  Kuhl, Patricia ^a   Rivera Gaxiola, Maritza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain measures; Infants; Language development; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROWTH CURVE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKILL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TELEVISION; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 48249105861     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.30.051606.094321     Document Type: Review

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