The neuroprotective effects of bilingualism upon the inferior parietal lobule: A Structural Neuroimaging Study in Aging Chinese Bilinguals

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-13

  Abutalebi, Jubin ^a,b   Canini, Matteo ^b,c   Della Rosa, Pasquale A ^c   Green, David W ^d   Weekes, Brendan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Bilingualism; Chinese languages; Inferior parietal lobule; Neuroimaging; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84918567208     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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