An ERP study of second language learning after childhood: Effects of proficiency

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1212-1228

  Ojima, Shiro ^a,b   Nakata, Hiroki ^a   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; VERBALIZATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 23944434399     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929055002436     Document Type: Article

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