Linguistic Grammar Learning and DRD2-TAQ-IA Polymorphism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wong, Patrick C M ^a,b,c   Ettlinger, Marc ^b,d   Zheng, Jing ^b,c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DRD2 GENE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GRAMMAR; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; RECEPTOR BINDING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84878556084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064983     Document Type: Article

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