Bilingualism provides a neural reserve for aging populations

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 69, Issue , 2015, Pages 201-210

  Abutalebi, Jubin ^a,b   Guidi, Lucia ^b,c   Borsa, Virginia ^b   Canini, Matteo ^b,d   Della Rosa, Pasquale A ^d   Parris, Ben A ^e   Weekes, Brendan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE IUSS PAVIA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognitive reserve; Ex Gaussian analysis; Neural reserve; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; KERNEL METHOD; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MONOLINGUAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; LANGUAGE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITIVE RESERVE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84923033756     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.040     Document Type: Article

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