Neural correlates of foreign-language learning in childhood: A 3-year longitudinal ERP study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 183-199

  Ojima, Shiro ^a,b   Nakamura, Naoko ^b   Matsuba Kurita, Hiroko ^a   Hoshino, Takahiro ^a,c   Hagiwara, Hiroko ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH THERAPY;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78649486232     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21425     Document Type: Article

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