Language Status and Hemispheric Involvement in Reading: Evidence From Trilingual Arabic Speakers Tested in Arabic, Hebrew, and English

Neuropsychology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 240-254

  Ibrahim, Raphiq ^a,b   Eviatar, Zohar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabic speakers; bilinguals; hemisphere; lexical decision; morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 62549126427     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014193     Document Type: Article

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