Language or music, mother or Mozart? Structural and environmental influences on infants' language networks

Brain and Language

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 53-65

  Dehaene Lambertz, G ^a,b,c,d   Montavont, A ^a,b,d   Jobert, A ^a,b,d   Allirol, L ^a,d   Dubois, J ^a,d   Hertz Pannier, L ^a,b,d,e,f   Dehaene, S ^a,b,d,g  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d NeuroSpin   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Brain; FMRI; Infant; Language acquisition; Lateralization; Music; Social

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOICE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOTHER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTHERS; MUSIC; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOICE;

EID: 77955052149     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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