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SUBMITTER: Lopez-Barroso D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3740909 | biostudies-other | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
López-Barroso Diana D Catani Marco M Ripollés Pablo P Dell'Acqua Flavio F Rodríguez-Fornells Antoni A de Diego-Balaguer Ruth R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130724 32
Human language requires constant learning of new words, leading to the acquisition of an average vocabulary of more than 30,000 words in adult life. The ability to learn new words is highly variable and may rely on the integration between auditory and motor information. Here, we combined diffusion imaging tractography and functional MRI to study whether the strength of anatomical and functional connectivity between auditory and motor language networks is associated with word learning ability. Ou ...[more]