Age of Acquisition: Its Neural and Computational Mechanisms

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 638-650

  Hernandez, Arturo E ^a   Li, Ping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

age of acquisition; bilingualism; computational modeling; second language acquisition; sensorimotor learning

Indexed keywords

AGE; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34548532927     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.133.4.638     Document Type: Article

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