Differences in word recognition between early bilinguals and monolinguals: Behavioral and ERP evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1362-1371

  Lehtonen, Minna ^a,b,c   Hultén, Annika ^b,c,d   Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni ^e,f,g   Cunillera, Toni ^f   Tuomainen, Jyrki ^h   Laine, Matti ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^e BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; ERPs; Language exposure; Morphology; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BILINGUALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FINNISH SWEDISH BILINGUAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEXICALITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861221453     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.021     Document Type: Article

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