Exploring the Early Organization and Maturation of Linguistic Pathways in the Human Infant Brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2283-2298

  Dubois, Jessica ^a,b,c   Poupon, Cyril ^b   Thirion, Bertrand ^b,c,d   Simonnet, Hina ^a,b,c   Kulikova, Sofya ^b,e,f   Leroy, François ^a,b,c   Hertz Pannier, Lucie ^b,e,f   Dehaene Lambertz, Ghislaine ^a,b,c  

^a Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

brain development; diffusion imaging; interhemispheric asymmetry; language network; white matter maturation and myelination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMBRYOLOGY; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NERVE TRACT; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84965160751     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv082     Document Type: Article

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