Language-invariant verb processing regions in Spanish-English bilinguals

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 251-261

  Willms, Joanna L ^a,b   Shapiro, Kevin A ^a,b,c,d   Peelen, Marius V ^a,e   Pajtas, Petra E ^a,e   Costa, Albert ^f   Moo, Lauren R ^b,d   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; FMRI; Grammatical class; MVPA; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRYS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PHONETICS; POSTERIOR MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PRESUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956223709     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.021     Document Type: Article

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