Mental addition in bilinguals: An fMRI study of task-related and performance-related activation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1851-1861

  Lin, Jo Fu Lotus ^a   Imada, Toshiaki ^a,b   Kuhl, Patricia K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 digit addition; bilingual mental calculation; fMRI; performance related activation; task related activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUAL; CALCULATION; CHINESE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL ADDITION; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MULTILINGUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863690055     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr263     Document Type: Article

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