Language development across the life span: A neuropsychological/neuroimaging perspective

M Rosselli, A Ardila, E Matute… - Neuroscience …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Language development has been correlated with specific changes in brain development.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the linguistic‐brain associations that occur from birth …

[HTML][HTML] Neural organization and plasticity of language

HJ Neville, D Bavelier - Current opinion in Neurobiology, 1998 - Elsevier
Powerful advances in neuroimaging techniques have added to and refined classical
descriptions of the neurobiology of language in adults. Recent studies have employed these …

Age of language learning shapes brain structure: a cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals

D Klein, K Mok, JK Chen, KE Watkins - Brain and language, 2014 - Elsevier
We examined the effects of learning a second language (L2) on brain structure. Cortical
thickness was measured in the MRI datasets of 22 monolinguals and 66 bilinguals. Some …

Neuroplasticity as a function of second language learning: Anatomical changes in the human brain

P Li, J Legault, KA Litcofsky - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
The brain has an extraordinary ability to functionally and physically change or reconfigure its
structure in response to environmental stimulus, cognitive demand, or behavioral …

Language and brain

AD Friederici, I Wartenburger - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The human faculty of language has been the focus of researchers from different disciplines
such as linguistics, psychology, neurology, biology, anthropology, and more recently …

[HTML][HTML] Age of second language acquisition in multilinguals has an impact on gray matter volume in language-associated brain areas

A Kaiser, LS Eppenberger, R Smieskova… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Numerous structural studies have established that experience shapes and reshapes the
brain throughout a lifetime. The impact of early development, however, is still a matter of …

Images of the multilingual brain: the effect of age of second language acquisition

E Wattendorf, J Festman - Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2008 - cambridge.org
Is it the age of second language acquisition (AoA) that primarily determines the manner of
cerebral representation of multiple languages in the brain, or is it proficiency? Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] The neural basis of language development and its impairment

AD Friederici - Neuron, 2006 - cell.com
The neural correlates of early language development and language impairment are
described, with the adult language-related brain systems as a target model …

Language and brain: what is up? What is coming up?

JF Démonet, G Thierry - Journal of Clinical and Experimental …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The classical aphasiological model of brain/language relationships is nowadays
complemented by independent results from functional neuroimaging studies using …

Age-related changes in the neurophysiology of language in adults: relationship to regional cortical thinning and white matter microstructure

N Kemmotsu, HM Girard, NE Kucukboyaci… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Although reading skill remains relatively stable with advancing age in humans,
neurophysiological measures suggest potential reductions in efficiency of lexical information …