Sensitive period for white-matter connectivity of superior temporal cortex in deaf people

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 349-359

  Li, Yanyan ^a   Ding, Guosheng ^a   Booth, James R ^b   Huang, Ruiwang ^c   Lv, Yating ^a   Zang, Yufeng ^a   He, Yong ^a   Peng, Danling ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acquired deaf; Congenitally deaf; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy, tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISTROPY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

AGE OF ONSET; ANISOTROPY; DEAFNESS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84862946439     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21215     Document Type: Article

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