Cultural and linguistic influence on neural bases of 'Theory of Mind': An fMRI study with Japanese bilinguals

Brain and Language

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 210-220

  Kobayashi, Chiyoko ^a   Glover, Gary H ^b   Temple, Elise ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognition; Culture; fMRI; Japanese; Language; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745945052     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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