Large-scale cortical network properties predict future sound-to-word learning success

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1087-1103

  Sheppard, John Patrick ^a,b   Wang, Ji Ping ^a   Wong, Patrick C M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859151158     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00210     Document Type: Article

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