Structural correlates of semantic and phonemic fluency ability in first and second languages

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2690-2698

  Grogan, Alice ^a   Green, David W ^b   Ali, Nilufa ^b   Crinion, Jenny T ^a   Price, Cathy J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual; MRI; Phonological; Semantic; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349917978     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp023     Document Type: Article

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