Early setting of grammatical processing in the bilingual brain

Neuron

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 159-170

  Wartenburger, Isabell ^a   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a,b   Abutalebi, Jubin ^c   Cappa, Stefano F ^c   Villringer, Arno ^a   Perani, Daniela ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0037426951     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)01150-9     Document Type: Article

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