Narrative processing in typically developing children and children with early unilateral brain injury: Seeing gesture matters

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 815-828

  Demir, Özlem Ece ^a   Fisher, Joan A ^a,b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   Levine, Susan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early brain injury; Gesture; Narrative development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NARRATION;

EID: 84895115664     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034322     Document Type: Article

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