Left prefrontal cortex activation during sentence comprehension covaries with grammatical knowledge in children

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 207-216

  Knoll, L J ^a   Obleser, J ^a   Schipke, C S ^a,b   Friederici, A D ^a,b   Brauer, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case marking; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Language development; Syntax; Word order

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84861581351     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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