Syntax gradually segregates from semantics in the developing brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 106-111

  Skeide, Michael A ^a   Brauer, Jens ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SYNTAX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84903891475     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.05.080     Document Type: Article

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