Behavioral correlates of changes in hippocampal gray matter structure during acquisition of foreign vocabulary

NeuroImage

Volumn 131, Issue , 2016, Pages 205-213

  Bellander, Martin ^a   Berggren, Rasmus ^a   Mårtensson, Johan ^b   Brehmer, Yvonne ^a,c   Wenger, Elisabeth ^c   Li, Tie Qiang ^a   Bodammer, Nils C ^c   Shing, Yee Lee ^c   Werkle Bergner, Markus ^c   Lövdén, Martin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Experience dependent plasticity; Foreign language learning; Gray matter; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOBILE APPLICATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SMARTPHONE; SPEECH THERAPY; SWEDISH CITIZEN; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORGAN SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRANSLATING; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963943962     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.020     Document Type: Article

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