Rapid cortical plasticity underlying novel word learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 50, 2010, Pages 16864-16867

  Shtyrov, Yury ^a   Nikulin, Vadim V ^b   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 78650376441     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1376-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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