Hemispheric asymmetries in bilinguals: Tongue similarity affects lateralization of second language

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1187-1194

  D'Anselmo, Anita ^a   Reiterer, Susanne ^b   Zuccarini, Francesca ^a   Tommasi, Luca ^a   Brancucci, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dichotic listening; First language (L1); Hemispheric asymmetry; Linguistic similarity; Second language (L2)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TONGUE; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877804310     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.03.016     Document Type: Article

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