Language-specific activations in the brain: Evidence from inflectional processing in bilinguals

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 495-513

  Lehtonen, Minna ^a,b,c   Vorobyev, Victor ^c   Soveri, Anna ^b,c   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^d   Tuokkola, Terhi ^c,e   Laine, Matti ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bilinguals; Brain imaging; fMRI; Inflectional processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SWEDEN; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 67649658022     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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