Age-related sensitive periods influence visual language discrimination in adults

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Weikum, Whitney M ^a   Vouloumanos, Athena ^b   Navarra, Jordi ^c   Soto Faraco, Salvador ^d,e   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^d   Werker, Janet F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adults; Age of acquisition; Language discrimination; Sensitive period; Visual speech

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84888095689     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00086     Document Type: Article

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