Syntactic processing in bilinguals: An fNIRS study

Brain and Language

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-151

  Scherer, Lilian Cristine ^a,b,c   Fonseca, Rochele Paz ^a,b,c   Amiri, Mahnoush ^a,b   Adrover Roig, Daniel ^a,b,d   Marcotte, Karine ^a,b   Giroux, Francine ^b   Senhadji, Noureddine ^b   Benali, Habib ^e   Lesage, Frédéric ^b,f   Ansaldo, Ana Inés ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Functional near infrared spectroscopy; Syntax; Verbal agreement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DETECTOR; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FRANCE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PORTUGAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSOR; SYNTACTIC PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOBE; WERNICKE AREA;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84859735959     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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