Different kinds of bilinguals - Different kinds of brains: The neural organisation of two languages in one brain

Brain and Language

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 261-266

  Peltola, Maija S ^a   Tamminen, Henna ^a   Toivonen, Heidi ^a   Kujala, Teija ^b   Näätänen, Risto ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Phonological processing; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINNISH; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LATENT PERIOD; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHONEME; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SWEDISH;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860446381     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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