Grey matter volume in the cerebellum is related to the processing of grammatical rules in a second language: A structural voxel-based morphometry study

Cerebellum

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 55-63

  Pliatsikas, Christos ^a   Johnstone, Tom ^a   Marinis, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Grammatical processing; Second language; VBM

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; PUTAMEN; REACTION TIME; SECOND LANGUAGE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; FINGERS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PUTAMEN; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896489232     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-013-0515-6     Document Type: Article

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