Greater leftward lateralization of the inferior frontal gyrus in second language learners with higher syntactic abilities

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3625-3635

  Nauchi, Arihito ^a,b   Sakai, Kuniyoshi L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain anatomy; Frontal cortex; Human; Language acquisition; Lateralization; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAMMAR; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; OXYGEN; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350279320     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20790     Document Type: Article

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