Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 7 , Pages 839-849 , July 2009

The role of the striatum in phonological processing. Evidence from early stages of Huntington's disease

  • Marc Teichmann

      Affiliations

    • Neuropsychologie Interventionnelle, INSERM U955, IM3/Paris XII Créteil, France
    • Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, UMR8554, EHESS-ENS-CNRS, Departement d'Etudes Cognitives, Paris, France
    • Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Henri Mondor Hospital, AP/HP, Créteil, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Neuropsychologie Interventionnelle, INSERM U955, 8 rue du Général Sarrail, 94010 Créteil, France.
    • ,
  • Isabelle Darcy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
    • ,
  • Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi

      Affiliations

    • Neuropsychologie Interventionnelle, INSERM U955, IM3/Paris XII Créteil, France
    • Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Henri Mondor Hospital, AP/HP, Créteil, France
    • ,
  • Emmanuel Dupoux

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, UMR8554, EHESS-ENS-CNRS, Departement d'Etudes Cognitives, Paris, France

Received 12 April 2007 ,Revised 12 November 2008 ,Accepted 11 December 2008.

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