Decreased EEG coherence between prefrontal electrodes: A correlate of high language proficiency?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 109-113

  Reiterer, Susanne ^a,c   Berger, Michael L ^a   Hemmelmann, Claudia ^b   Rappelsberger, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cortical efficiency; EEG coherence; Language proficiency; Second language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 20944433585     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2215-z     Document Type: Article

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