Dysfunction of the auditory thalamus in developmental dyslexia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 13841-13846

  Díaz, Begoña ^a   Hintz, Florian ^a   Kiebel, Stefan J ^a   Von Kriegstein, Katharina ^a  

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

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Functional mri; Magnocellular; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SENSORY THALAMUS; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EFFERENT NERVE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY DYSFUNCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; THALAMUS;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURONS; PHONETICS; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THALAMUS;

EID: 84865283063     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119828109     Document Type: Article

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