Lateralization of semantic processing is shaped by exposure to specific mother tongues: The case of insight problem solving by bilingual and monolingual native Hebrew speakers

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 900-913

  Metuki, Nili ^a   Sinkevich, Shani ^a   Lavidor, Michal ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bilinguals; Hebrew; hemispheres; insight problems; visual fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883389435     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000023     Document Type: Article

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