Developmental increase in top-down and bottom-up processing in a phonological task: An effective connectivity, fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1135-1145

  Bitan, Tali ^a   Cheon, Jimmy ^b   Lu, Dong ^b   Burman, Douglas D ^b   Booth, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66049100611     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21065     Document Type: Article

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