Bilingualism tunes the anterior cingulate cortex for conflict monitoring

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2076-2086

  Abutalebi, Jubin ^a,b   Della Rosa, Pasquale Anthony ^a   Green, David W ^c   Hernandez, Mireia ^d,e   Scifo, Paola ^a   Keim, Roland ^a   Cappa, Stefano F ^a   Costa, Albert ^d,f  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

anterior cingulate cortex (ACC); bilinguals; brain plasticity; cognitive control; event related fMRI; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CONTROL SYSTEM; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MONITORING; NEOCORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTILINGUALISM; NEGOTIATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864912966     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr287     Document Type: Article

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