Associations between the size of the amygdala in infancy and language abilities during the preschool years in normally developing children

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2791-2799

  Ortiz Mantilla, Silvia ^a   Choe, Myong sun ^b,c   Flax, Judy ^a   Grant, P Ellen ^b,c   Benasich, April A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Infant; Language development; Naturally sleeping MRI

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT;

AMYGDALA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 71849087172     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.029     Document Type: Article

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