The bilingual brain: Flexibility and control in the human cortex

Physics of Life Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 428-443

  Buchweitz, Augusto ^a   Prat, Chantel ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Control; Executive function; FMRI; Language; Semantic representation

Indexed keywords

BILINGUALISM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FMRI; LANGUAGE; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION;

CONTROL; NEUROIMAGING;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONTROL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION;

BILINGUALISM; CONTROL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FMRI; LANGUAGE; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84888058256     PISSN: 15710645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2013.07.020     Document Type: Review

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