Language lateralisation in late proficient bilinguals: A lexical decision fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 688-695

  Park, Haeme R P ^a   Badzakova Trajkov, Gjurgjica ^a   Waldie, Karen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; BOLD; Cerebral laterality; Hemisphere; L2; Language acquisition; Monolingual; Neuroimaging; Proficiency

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BILINGUAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MONOLINGUAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862784792     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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