Losing control of your languages: A case study

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 266-286

  Calabria, Marco ^a   Marne, Paula ^a   Romero Pinel, Lucía ^b   Juncadella, Montserrat ^b   Costa, Albert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Neuroinflammatory and progressive disease; Pathological language switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROINFLAMMATORY AND PROGRESSIVE DISEASE.; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL LANGUAGE SWITCHING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BILINGUALISM; NEUROINFLAMMATORY AND PROGRESSIVE DISEASE.; PATHOLOGICAL LANGUAGE SWITCHING;

ADULT; BRAIN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTILINGUALISM;

EID: 84900029689     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2013.879443     Document Type: Article

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