Brain correlates of sentence translation in Finnish-Norwegian bilinguals

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 607-610

  Lehtonen, Minna H ^a,d   Laine, Matti ^a,d   Niemi, Jussi ^b   Thomsen, Tormod ^c   Vorobyev, Victor A ^d   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^c  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Brain imaging; Finnish; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Language; Norwegian; Translation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENTENCE TRANSLATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FINLAND; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTILINGUALISM; NORWAY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 17844362945     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200504250-00018     Document Type: Article

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