Bilinguals Use Language-Control Brain Areas More Than Monolinguals to Perform Non-Linguistic Switching Tasks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina ^a   Sanjuán, Ana ^a   Ventura Campos, Noelia ^a   Román, Patricia ^a,b   Martin, Clara ^c,d,e   Barceló, Francisco ^f   Costa, Albert ^c,g   Ávila, César ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MONOLINGUAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884142856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073028     Document Type: Article

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