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SUBMITTER: Travis KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3138516 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Travis Katherine E KE Leonard Matthew K MK Brown Timothy T TT Hagler Donald J DJ Curran Megan M Dale Anders M AM Elman Jeffrey L JL Halgren Eric E
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20110105 8
Learning words is central in human development. However, lacking clear evidence for how or where language is processed in the developing brain, it is unknown whether these processes are similar in infants and adults. Here, we use magnetoencephalography in combination with high-resolution structural magnetic resonance imaging to noninvasively estimate the spatiotemporal distribution of word-selective brain activity in 12- to 18-month-old infants. Infants watched pictures of common objects and lis ...[more]