Syntactic priming in German-English bilinguals during sentence comprehension

NeuroImage

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1164-1172

  Weber, Kirsten ^a   Indefrey, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; fMRI repetition suppression; Sentence comprehension; Syntactic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349194731     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.03.040     Document Type: Article

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