Effects of syntactic complexity in L1 and L2; An fMRI study of Korean-English bilinguals

Brain Research

Volumn 1136, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 178-189

  Suh, Soyoung ^b   Yoon, Hyo Woon ^a   Lee, Seungbok ^b   Chung, Jun Young ^a,c   Cho, Zang Hee ^b   Park, HyunWook ^c  

^a Gachon University   (South Korea)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

fMRI; Intensity analysis; Korean English late bilinguals; Left inferior frontal gyrus; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KOREA; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS;

UCHIDA;

EID: 33846805459     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.043     Document Type: Article

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