Language proficiency modulates the engagement of cognitive control areas in multilinguals

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 905-911

  Abutalebi, Jubin ^a,b   Della Rosa, Pasquale A ^a   Ding, Guosheng ^c   Weekes, Brendan ^b   Costa, Albert ^d   Green, David W ^e  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Cognitive control; Language control; Language switching; Multilingual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84875244364     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.08.018     Document Type: Article

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