Effect of syntactic similarity on cortical activation during second language processing: A comparison of English and Japanese among native Korean trilinguals

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 194-204

  Jeong, Hyeonjeong ^a   Sugiura, Motoaki ^b   Sassa, Yuko ^a,c   Haji, Tomoki ^d   Usui, Nobuo ^c,d   Taira, Masato ^d   Horie, Kaoru ^a   Sato, Shigeru ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

fMRI; Second language processing; Syntactic similarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847392498     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20269     Document Type: Article

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