Learning language with the wrong neural scaffolding: The cost of neural commitment to sounds

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Finn, Amy S ^a,b   Hudson Kam, Carla L ^a,c   Ettlinger, Marc ^a,d   Vytlacil, Jason ^a   D'Esposito, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Expertise; fMRI; Language learning; Plasticity; Sensitive period

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHONETICS; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUND ANALYSIS; SPEECH THERAPY; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOWEL;

EID: 84888082888     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00085     Document Type: Article

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