Hebrew brain vs. english brain: Language modulates the way it is processed

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2280-2290

  Bick, Atira S ^a,b   Goelman, Gadi ^b   Frost, Ram ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960149899     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21583     Document Type: Article

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