Simultaneous interpreters vs. professional multilingual controls: Group differences in cognitive control as well as brain structure and function

NeuroImage

Volumn 134, Issue , 2016, Pages 250-260

  Becker, Maxi ^a   Schubert, Torsten ^b   Strobach, Tilo ^c   Gallinat, Jürgen ^a   Kühn, Simone ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Germany   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

BA 10; Cognitive control; Frontal pole; Resting state fMRI; Simultaneous interpreting; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TRANSFER OF LEARNING; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE);

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSLATING;

EID: 84963972058     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.079     Document Type: Article

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