Individual differences in auditory sentence comprehension in children: An exploratory event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation

Brain and Language

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 72-79

  Yeatman, Jason D ^a   Ben Shachar, Michal ^b   Glover, Gary H ^a   Feldman, Heidi M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Children; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Individual differences; Inter subject variability; Language; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955049515     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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