Convergent cortical representation of semantic processing in bilinguals

Brain and Language

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 347-363

  Illes, Judy ^a   Francis, Wendy S ^a   Desmond, John E ^a   Gabrieli, John D E ^a   Glover, Gary H ^a   Poldrack, Russell ^a   Lee, Christine J ^a   Wagner, Anthony D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bilingualism; fMRI; Semantic representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032715234     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1999.2186     Document Type: Article

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