Syntax production in bilinguals

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1029-1040

  Golestani, Narly ^a,b   Alario, F Xavier ^c   Meriaux, Sébastien ^b   Le Bihan, Denis ^d   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b   Pallier, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DIF   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Brain; fMRI; Grammar; Language production

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; READING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTILINGUALISM; OXYGEN; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33646701012     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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