Processing demands upon cognitive, linguistic, and articulatory functions promote grey matter plasticity in the adult multilingual brain: Insights from simultaneous interpreters

Cortex

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 179-189

  Elmer, Stefan ^a   Hänggi, Jürgen ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Articulation; Cognitive control; Grey matter volume; Linguistic functions; Multilingual speech processing; Plasticity; Simultaneous interpreters; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE ANTERIOR INSULA; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GRAY MATTER PLASTICITY; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH;

EID: 84897081615     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.02.014     Document Type: Article

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