Speaking in multiple languages: Neural correlates of language proficiency in multilingual word production

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 103-112

  Videsott, Gerda ^a   Herrnberger, Bärbel ^b   Hoenig, Klaus ^b   Schilly, Edgar ^b,c   Grothe, Jo ^b   Wiater, Werner ^a,d   Spitzer, Manfred ^b,c   Kiefer, Markus ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c Transfer Center for Neurosciences and Learning   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Multilingualism; Picture naming; Right prefrontal cortex; Word retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952541308     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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