Neural control of cross-language asymmetry in the bilingual brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2244-2251

  Nakamura, Kimihiro ^a,b,c   Kouider, Sid ^d   Makuuchi, Michiru ^c   Kuroki, Chihiro ^e   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^c   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^c,f   Ogawa, Seiji ^e  

^a DIF   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research   (Japan)

^f FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bilingualism; effective connectivity; fMRI; language dominance; repetition priming; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BILINGUAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955944521     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp290     Document Type: Article

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