Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 7 , Pages 896-906 , July 2010

Functional activation in the cerebellum during working memory and simple speech tasks

  • Corrine Durisko

      Affiliations

    • Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. University of Pittsburgh, 602 Learning Research and Development Center, 3939 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
    • ,
  • Julie A. Fiez

      Affiliations

    • Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • Department of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, USA
    • Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Received 20 December 2008 ,Revised 22 August 2009 ,Accepted 1 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.09.009

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