The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1841-1852

  Perani, Daniela ^a,e   Paulesu, Eraldo ^a   Galles, Nuria Sebastian ^c   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^d   Dehaene, Stanislas ^d   Bettinardi, Valentino ^a   Cappa, Stefane F ^b   Fazio, Ferruccio ^a   Mehler, Jacques ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Language comprehension; PET; Proficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN REGION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031718047     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.10.1841     Document Type: Article

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