Dynamics of the anatomical changes that occur in the brains of schoolchildren as they learn to read

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Simon, Gregory ^a,b   Lanoë, Céline ^a,b   Poirel, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Rossi, Sandrine ^a,b   Lubin, Amélie ^a,b   Pineau, Arlette ^a,b   Houdé, Olivier ^a,b,c  

^a Alliance for Higher Education and research Sorbonne Paris Cité   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; THALAMUS; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; READING;

EID: 84893189768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081789     Document Type: Article

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