Verbal short-term memory and cerebellum: Evidence from a patient with congenital cerebellar vermis hypoplasia

Neurocase

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-124

  Misciagna, Sandro ^a,b   Iuvone, Laura ^a   Mariotti, Paolo ^b   Silveri, Maria Caterina ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Children; Language acquisition; Phonological short term memory

Indexed keywords

APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBALIZATION;

APHASIA, BROCA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951032253     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790903329158     Document Type: Article

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