Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1145, Issue , 2008, Pages 30-40

  Chan, Alice H D ^a,b   Luke, Kang Kwong ^a,b   Li, Ping ^c   Yip, Virginia ^d   Li, Geng ^e   Weekes, Brendan ^f   Tan, Li Hai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cerebellum; Chinese English bilinguals; fMRI; Language; Nouns and verbs; Putamen; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CHINESE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PUTAMEN; READING;

EID: 57449092098     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1416.000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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