Age of acquisition effects on the functional organization of language in the adult brain

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-29

  Mayberry, Rachel I ^a   Chen, Jen Kai ^b,c   Witcher, Pamela ^b   Klein, Denise ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; ASL; Brain development; Broca's area; Critical period; FMRI; Grammatical judgment; Language processing; Sign language; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; SIGN LANGUAGE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 80051888535     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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