Cultural neurolinguistics

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue C, 2009, Pages 159-171

  Chen, Chuansheng ^a   Xue, Gui ^b   Mei, Leilei ^a,c   Chen, Chunhui ^a,c   Dong, Qi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

brain; cross cultural; language; neurolinguistics

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH THERAPY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BRAIN; CULTURE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 71149113596     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17811-1     Document Type: Review

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