Learning new color names produces rapid increase in gray matter in the intact adult human cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 6686-6688

  Kwok, Veronica ^a,b   Niu, Zhendong ^c   Kay, Paul ^d,e   Zhou, Ke ^f   Mo, Lei ^g   Jin, Zhen ^h   So, Kwok Fai ^a,b,i   Tan, Li Hai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^g SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

ⁱ JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Brain development; Neuro plasticity; Whorf hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955595383     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103217108     Document Type: Article

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