A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of left hemisphere language dominance in children.

Background: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive method of assessing language dominance in a pediatric population.

Objective: To determine the pattern of receptive language lateralization in healthy children.

Design: We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess an auditory language task in 11 children (7 girls, 4 boys; mean age, 8.