Bilingualism trains specific brain circuits involved in flexible rule selection and application

Brain and Language

Volumn 137, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-61

  Stocco, Andrea ^a   Prat, Chantel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Bilingualism; Cognitive control; Cognitive flexibility; Executive function; FMRI; Rapid instructed task learning; Rule based behaviors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; RESPONSE TIME; THALAMUS; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAY MATTER; LINGUISTICS; MULTILINGUALISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908617545     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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