Pathways to language: fiber tracts in the human brain

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 175-181

  Friederici, Angela D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGIONS; COMPLEX SENTENCES; FIBER TRACTS; GREY MATTERS; HIGHER-ORDER LANGUAGES; HUMAN BRAINS; HUMAN LANGUAGES; WHITE-MATTER FIBER TRACTS;

MAMMALS;

LINGUISTICS;

BRAIN REGION; CHIMPANZEE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MACACA; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 62949130626     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.01.001     Document Type: Review

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