Brain basis of phonological awareness for spoken language in children and its disruption in dyslexia

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 754-764

  Kovelman, Ioulia ^a,b   Norton, Elizabeth S ^a,c   Christodoulou, Joanna A ^a   Gaab, Nadine ^d,e   Lieberman, Daniel A ^a   Triantafyllou, Christina ^f   Wolf, Maryanne ^c   Whitfield Gabrieli, Susan ^a,f   Gabrieli, John D E ^a,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

child; dyslexia; fMRI; phonological awareness; reading

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

EID: 84859097221     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr094     Document Type: Article

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