Brain potentials reveal semantic priming in both the 'active' and the 'non-attended' language of early bilinguals

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 326-333

  Martin, Clara D ^a,b   Dering, Benjamin ^b   Thomas, Enlli M ^b   Thierry, Guillaume ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; ERPs; Language; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349144379     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.025     Document Type: Article

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