Neurocognitive basis of implicit learning of sequential structure and its relation to language processing

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1145, Issue , 2008, Pages 113-131

  Conway, Christopher M ^a,c   Pisoni, David B ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Domain generality; Implicit learning; Language processing; Modality specificity; Prefrontal cortex; Sequence learning

Indexed keywords

BASAL GANGLION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SKILL; SPEECH;

EID: 57649091151     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1416.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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