A network-level analysis of cognitive flexibility reveals a differential influence of the anterior cingulate cortex in bilinguals versus monolinguals

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 85, Issue , 2016, Pages 62-73

  Becker, Theresa M ^a   Prat, Chantel S ^a   Stocco, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Dynamic Causal Modeling; Effective connectivity; Executive functioning; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; CAUSAL MODELING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MODULATION; MONITORING; ADULT; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960931113     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.01.020     Document Type: Article

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