The effects of bilingualism on the white matter structure of the brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1334-1337

  Pliatsikas, Christos ^a,b   Moschopoulou, Elisavet ^b   Saddy, James Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Immersion; Second language acquisition; TBSS; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WHITE MATTER; MULTILINGUALISM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84922318970     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414183112     Document Type: Article

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