Evidence for reduced hemispheric aysmmetries in non-verbal functions in bilinguals

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 285-299

  Hausmann, Markus ^a   Durmusoglu, Gökce ^b   Yazgan, Yanki ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Face discrimination; Language; Language acquisition; Language proficiency; Lateralization; Turkish German bilinguals; Word matching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FACE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 1542288898     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0911-6044(03)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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