The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high-proficient bilinguals: An fMRI study during verbal fluency

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 170-182

  Perani, Daniela ^a,b   Abutalebi, Jubin ^a   Paulesu, Eraldo ^d   Brambati, Simona ^a   Scifo, Paola ^c   Cappa, Stefano F ^a,b   Fazio, Ferruccio ^b,d  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bilinguals; Functional neuroimaging; Language acquisition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037973573     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10110     Document Type: Article

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