DTI reveals structural differences in white matter tracts between bilingual and monolingual children

Brain Research

Volumn 1435, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-80

  Mohades, Seyede Ghazal ^a   Struys, Esli ^a   Van Schuerbeek, Peter ^a   Mondt, Katrien ^b   Van De Craen, Piet ^a   Luypaert, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b Flemish Ministry of Education and Training   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Children; Diffusion tensor; Fiber tracking; Language processing

Indexed keywords

ARCUATE FASCICULUS; ARTICLE; BILINGUAL; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MONOLINGUAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WHITE MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84856365096     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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