Language representation and processing in fluent bilinguals: Electrophysiological evidence for asymmetric mapping in bilingual memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1426-1437

  Palmer, Shekeila D ^a   van Hooff, Johanna C ^b   Havelka, Jelena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Concreteness; ERP; N400; Translation recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949773890     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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