Reduced frontal activation with increasing 2nd language proficiency - Stein, Maria; Federspiel, Andrea; Koenig, Thomas; Wirth, Miranka; Lehmann, Christoph; Wiest, Roland; Strik, Werner; Brandeis, Daniel; Dierks, Thomas (Neuropsychologia, 2009)
Keywords: Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior - physiology; Anatomical correlates of behavior; Behavioral psychophysiology; Bilingualism; Bilingualism. Multilingualism; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Brain Mapping; Cortical plasticity; Diagnostic Tests; English; Exchange Programs; Female; fMRI; Foreign Students; Frontal Lobe - physiology; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; German; German as a Second Language Learning; High School Students; Humans; Inferior frontal gyrus; Language; Language Acquisition; Language Processing; Language Proficiency; Lexico-semantic processing; Longitudinal Studies; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Multilingualism; Native Language; Native Speakers; Neural Basis of Language; Oral Reading; Practice (Psychology); Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Second Language Learning; Semantic Processing; Semantics; Time Factors; Vocabulary; fMRI; Bilingualism; Cortical plasticity; Lexico-semantic processing; Inferior frontal gyrus; Human; Cerebral cortex; Central nervous system; Cognition; Activation; Frontal cortex; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Encephalon; Verbal ability; Language; Semantics; Plasticity; Information processing; Functional imaging