Sound to Language: Different Cortical Processing for First and Second Languages in Elementary School Children as Revealed by a Large-Scale Study Using fNIRS

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2374-2393

  Sugiura, Lisa ^a,b   Ojima, Shiro ^a,b   Matsuba Kurita, Hiroko ^b   Dan, Ippeita ^c   Tsuzuki, Daisuke ^d   Katura, Takusige ^e   Hagiwara, Hiroko ^a,b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foreign language; Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); Learning; Native language; Phonology

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SHIFT TO THE RIGHT; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SCHOOLS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 80052731090     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr023     Document Type: Article

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