Reading acquisition reorganizes the phonological awareness network only in alphabetic writing systems

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3354-3368

  Brennan, Christine ^a   Cao, Fan ^a,b   Pedroarena Leal, Nicole ^a   Mcnorgan, Chris ^a   Booth, James R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chinese; Cross linguistic; Development; English; Orthography; Phonology; Rhyming; Spoken language

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; WRITING;

CHINESE; CROSS-LINGUISTIC; DEVELOPMENT; ENGLISH; ORTHOGRAPHY; PHONOLOGY; RHYMING; SPOKEN LANGUAGE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886251529     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22147     Document Type: Article

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