FMRI of phonemic perception and its relationship to reading development in elementary- to middle-school-age children

NeuroImage

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 192-202

  Conant, Lisa L ^a   Liebenthal, Einat ^a   Desai, Anjali ^a   Binder, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Child; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Reading development; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONEME; PHONETICS; POSTERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUSIFORM GYRUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION; CHILD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; READING DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84892867157     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.055     Document Type: Article

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