The influence of the age of acquisition of a foreign language on the activation patterns of language areas

Polish Journal of Radiology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 22-28

  Bryll, Amira ^a   Urbanik, Andrzej ^a   Binder, Marek ^b   Herman Sucharska, Izabela ^a   Podsiadło, Lilianna ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Bilingualism; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH;

EID: 74749083329     PISSN: 1733134X     EISSN: 18990967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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