Neural mechanisms of language-based learning impairments: insights from human populations and animal models

RH Fitch, P Tallal - Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
The acquisition of speech perception and consequent expression of language represent
fundamental aspects of human functioning. Yet roughly 7% to 8% of children who are …

Language learning impairments: integrating basic science, technology, and remediation

P Tallal, MM Merzenich, S Miller, W Jenkins - Experimental Brain Research, 1998 - Springer
One of the fundamental goals of the modern field of neuroscience is to understand how
neuronal activity gives rise to higher cortical function. However, to bridge the gap between …

Language development

E Bates - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 1992 - Elsevier
Recent research suggests that our ability to learn language is innate, but not necessarily
domain-specific. That is, language development appears to be based on a relatively plastic …

Language learning disabilities: Integrating research approaches

P Tallal - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Developmental language learning impairments affect 10 to 20% of children and increase
their risk of later literacy problems (dyslexia) and psychiatric disorders. Both oral-and written …

Phenotypic variability in brain-behavior studies of specific language impairment

E Plante - Toward a genetics of language, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
The underlying assumption of a brain-behavior study of developmental language disorders
is that the combination of neurobiological and behavioral information may provide insights …

Neurobiology of child language disorders

B Tropper, RG Schwartz - Handbook of child language disorders, 2009 - books.google.com
T he scientific mapping between brain and language behavior is now proceeding at an
exceptionally rapid pace. This venture, though, is far from new; it has deep roots planted in …

Early language acquisition: Neural substrates and theoretical models.

PK Kuhl - 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Infants learn language (s) with apparent ease, and the tools of modern neuroscience are
providing valuable information about the mechanisms that underlie this capacity …

Neural substrates of language acquisition

P Kuhl, M Rivera-Gaxiola - Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Infants learn language (s) with apparent ease, and the tools of modern neuroscience are
providing valuable information about the mechanisms that underlie this capacity …

The neurobiology of sensory and language processing in language-impaired children

HJ Neville, SA Coffey, PJ Holcomb… - Journal of Cognitive …, 1993 - direct.mit.edu
Clinical, behavioral, and neurophysiological studies of developmental language impairment
(LI), including reading disability (RD), have variously emphasized different factors that may …

[HTML][HTML] Brain mechanisms in early language acquisition

PK Kuhl - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
The last decade has produced an explosion in neuroscience research examining young
children's early processing of language. Noninvasive, safe functional brain measurements …