The Infancy of the Human Brain

Neuron

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 93-109

  Dehaene Lambertz, G ^a   Spelke, E S ^b  

^a NeuroSpin Center ^*  (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DYNAMICS; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84943235280     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.026     Document Type: Review

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