Cortex
Volume 47, Issue 2 , Pages 202-216 , February 2011

Cerebral reorganization as a function of linguistic recovery in children: An fMRI study

  • Odelia Elkana

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Functional Brain Imaging Unit, Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel.
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  • Ram Frost

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • Uri Kramer

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Neurology, Sourasky Medial Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Dafna Ben-Bashat

      Affiliations

    • Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Talma Hendler

      Affiliations

    • Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • David Schmidt

      Affiliations

    • Behavioral Sciences, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
    • ,
  • Avraham Schweiger

      Affiliations

    • Behavioral Sciences, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
    • Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center, Raanana, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, 14 Rabeinu Yerucham St., P.O. 8401, Yaffo 68114, Israel.

Received 22 December 2008 ,Revised 9 August 2009 ,Accepted 11 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.12.003

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