Bilingual Language Switching and the Frontal Lobes: Modulatory Control in Language Selection.

Meuter, Renata; Humphreys, Glyn; Rumiati, Raffaella

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ERIC Number: EJ652315

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2002

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Bilingual Language Switching and the Frontal Lobes: Modulatory Control in Language Selection.

Meuter, Renata; Humphreys, Glyn; Rumiati, Raffaella

International Journal of Bilingualism, v6 n2 p109-24 Jun 2002

Discusses the brain mechanisms mediating the switching of languages in bilingual subjects. To ascertain the brain mechanisms mediating the control of language switching, switching was examined in a bilingual patient with frontal lobe damage and impaired control processes. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Code Switching (Language), Neurological Impairments, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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