Neural circuitry of the bilingual mental lexicon: Effect of age of second language acquisition

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-180

  Isel, Frédéric ^a,b   Baumgaertner, Annette ^c   Thrän, Johannes ^a   Meisel, Jürgen M ^a   Büchel, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AoA; Bilingualism; Cross language priming; fMRI; Mental lexicon; Neural adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149164272     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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