Spatiotemporal distribution of cortical processing of first and second languages in bilinguals. I. Effects of proficiency and linguistic setting

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2863-2881

  Pratt, Hillel ^a   Abbasi, Dalal Abu Amneh ^a   Bleich, Naomi ^a   Mittelman, Nomi ^a   Starr, Arnold ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Circumstances; Event related potentials; Fluency; Hemispheres

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WERNICKE AREA; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886304623     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22111     Document Type: Article

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