Neuroanatomical markers of speaking Chinese

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4108-4115

  Crinion, Jenny T ^a,b   Green, David W ^c   Chung, Rita ^a   Ali, Nliufa ^c   Grogan, Alice ^a   Price, Gavin R ^a   Mechelli, Andrea ^a,d   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese; Gray matter; Multilingual; Structural anatomy; Tonal language; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549103168     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20832     Document Type: Article

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