Cortical activation during word processing in late bilinguals: Similarities and differences as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 247-265

  Marian, Viorica ^a   Shildkrot, Yevgeniy ^b   Blumenfeld, Henrike K ^a   Kaushanskaya, Margarita ^a   Faroqi Shah, Yasmeen ^c   Hirsch, Joy ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD LIST RECALL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34247102610     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803390600659376     Document Type: Article

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