Involuntary switching of attention mediates differences in event-related responses to complex tones between early and late Spanish-English bilinguals

Brain Research

Volumn 1362, Issue , 2010, Pages 78-92

  Ortiz Mantilla, Silvia ^a   Choudhury, Naseem ^a,b   Alvarez, Barbara ^a   Benasich, April A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic auditory discrimination; Bilinguals; Involuntary attention switching; Late negativity; Mismatch negativity; P3a

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MASTOID; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149359140     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.09.031     Document Type: Article

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