Early gray-matter and white-matter concentration in infancy predict later language skills: A whole brain voxel-based morphometry study

Brain and Language

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-44

  Deniz Can, Dilara ^a   Richards, Todd ^a   Kuhl, Patricia K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cerebral peduncle; Expressive language; Hippocampus; Infancy; Posterior limb of the internal capsule (PLIC); Receptive language; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD LANGUAGE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNAL CAPSULE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84871559628     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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