An anatomical signature for literacy

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7266, 2009, Pages 983-986

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b,c,d   Seghier, Mohamed L ^e   Baquero, Silvia ^f   Estévez, Adelina ^d   Lozano, Alfonso ^f   Devlin, Joseph T ^g   Price, Cathy J ^e  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; BRAIN; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LANGUAGE; LITERACY; ONTOGENY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CHILD; COLOMBIA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; READING; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

PAN;

EID: 70350055060     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08461     Document Type: Article

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