Characteristic functional networks in high- versus low-proficiency second language speakers detected also during native language processing: An explorative EEG coherence study in 6 frequency bands

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 566-578

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

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cortical efficiency; Cortical network; EEG coherence; Language training; Proficiency; Second language learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; VIDEORECORDING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 26644432928     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.08.010     Document Type: Article

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