Shining new light on the brain's "bilingual signature": A functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy investigation of semantic processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1457-1471

  Kovelman, Ioulia ^b   Shalinsky, Mark H ^c   Berens, Melody S ^a   Petitto, Laura Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BILINGUAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MONOLINGUAL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 37849027964     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

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