Reduced frontal activation with increasing 2nd language proficiency

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2712-2720

  Stein, Maria ^a   Federspiel, Andrea ^a   Koenig, Thomas ^a   Wirth, Miranka ^a   Lehmann, Christoph ^a   Wiest, Roland ^b   Strik, Werner ^a   Brandeis, Daniel ^c   Dierks, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cortical plasticity; fMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Lexico semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349161601     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.05.023     Document Type: Article

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