Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals

Brain and Language

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-24

  Klein, Denise ^a   Mok, Kelvin ^a   Chen, Jen Kai ^a   Watkins, Kate E ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatomical brain imaging; Bilingualism; Brain plasticity; Cortical thickness; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 84898849279     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.05.014     Document Type: Article

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