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Article: Lexical representation of nouns and verbs in the late bilingual brain

TitleLexical representation of nouns and verbs in the late bilingual brain
Authors
KeywordsChinese-English bilinguals
FMRI
Neural representation of lexicon
Nouns and verbs
Issue Date2011
PublisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jneuroling
Citation
Journal Of Neurolinguistics, 2011, v. 24 n. 6, p. 674-682 How to Cite?
AbstractNeuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of English and other Western languages suggest that basic lexical categories such as nouns and verbs are represented in different brain circuits. By contrast, research from Chinese indicates overlapping brain regions for nouns and verbs. How does a bilingual brain support the representation and organization of nouns and verbs from typologically distinct languages such as Chinese and English? In this fMRI study we examined the neural representations of nouns and verbs in late Chinese-English bilinguals. Results indicate that the late bilinguals, not surprisingly, showed no significant differences in brain activation for nouns versus verbs in Chinese. Surprisingly, they also showed little neural differentiation of nouns and verbs in English, suggesting the use of native language mechanisms for the processing of second language stimuli. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/166116
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.2
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.625
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dc.contributor.authorYang, Jen_HK
dc.contributor.authorTan, LHen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLi, Pen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-20T08:28:41Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-20T08:28:41Z-
dc.date.issued2011en_HK
dc.identifier.citationJournal Of Neurolinguistics, 2011, v. 24 n. 6, p. 674-682en_HK
dc.identifier.issn0911-6044en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/166116-
dc.description.abstractNeuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of English and other Western languages suggest that basic lexical categories such as nouns and verbs are represented in different brain circuits. By contrast, research from Chinese indicates overlapping brain regions for nouns and verbs. How does a bilingual brain support the representation and organization of nouns and verbs from typologically distinct languages such as Chinese and English? In this fMRI study we examined the neural representations of nouns and verbs in late Chinese-English bilinguals. Results indicate that the late bilinguals, not surprisingly, showed no significant differences in brain activation for nouns versus verbs in Chinese. Surprisingly, they also showed little neural differentiation of nouns and verbs in English, suggesting the use of native language mechanisms for the processing of second language stimuli. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jneurolingen_HK
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Neurolinguisticsen_HK
dc.subjectChinese-English bilingualsen_HK
dc.subjectFMRIen_HK
dc.subjectNeural representation of lexiconen_HK
dc.subjectNouns and verbsen_HK
dc.titleLexical representation of nouns and verbs in the late bilingual brainen_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
dc.identifier.emailTan, LH: tanlh@hku.hken_HK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.07.002en_HK
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dc.identifier.volume24en_HK
dc.identifier.issue6en_HK
dc.identifier.spage674en_HK
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