Neural mechanisms of language switch

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-61

  Hosoda, Chihiro ^a,b   Hanakawa, Takashi ^a,c,d   Nariai, Tadashi ^b   Ohno, Kikuo ^b   Honda, Manabu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilingual brain; Cognitive switch; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Language switch; Prefrontal cortex; Superior temporal supramarginal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80054832337     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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