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Second-language learning and changes in the brain

Lee Osterhout, Andrew V. Poliakov, Kayo Inoue, Judith McLaughlin, Geoffrey Valentine, Ilona Pitkänen, Cheryl Frenck‐Mestre, Julia Hirschensohn

Journal of Neurolinguistics · 2008 · 216 citations · 27 references

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Concepts

Language StudiesLinguisticsNeuroscienceCognitive NeuroscienceNeurolinguisticsSecond Language LearningAge Effects In Language LearningLanguage ExposureLanguage LearningSecond Language AcquisitionSecond Language DevelopmentVocabulary AcquisitionSecond Language AdaptationSecond Language Processing

References

27

Reading Senseless Sentences: Brain Potentials Reflect Semantic Incongruity

Marta Kutas, Steven A. Hillyard · Science · 1980 · 4.9K citations

Language Studies, Neuroscience, Psychology +17

A Voxel-Based Morphometric Study of Ageing in 465 Normal Adult Human Brains

Catriona D. Good, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, John Ashburner et al. · NeuroImage · 2001 · 4.6K citations · Full text

Education, Anatomy, Neuroscience +12

Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers

Eleanor A. Maguire, David G. Gadian, Ingrid S. Johnsrude et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · 3.2K citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Low resolution electromagnetic tomography: a new method for localizing electrical activity in the brain

Roberto D. Pascual‐Marqui, Christoph M. Michel, Dietrich Lehmann · International Journal of Psychophysiology · 1994 · 2.9K citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +14

Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language

Jacqueline S. Johnson, Elissa L. Newport · Cognitive Psychology · 1989 · 2.7K citations

Language Studies, English As A Second Language, Linguistics +17