Neural Correlates of Nouns and Verbs in Early Bilinguals

@article{Chan2008NeuralCO,
  title={Neural Correlates of Nouns and Verbs in Early Bilinguals},
  author={Alice H. D. Chan and Kang-Kwong Luke and Ping Li and Virginia Yip and Geng Li and Brendan Stuart Hackett Weekes and Li Hai Tan},
  journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},
  year={2008},
  volume={1145}
}
Previous neuroimaging research indicates that English verbs and nouns are represented in frontal and posterior brain regions, respectively. For Chinese monolinguals, however, nouns and verbs are found to be associated with a wide range of overlapping areas without significant differences in neural signatures. This different pattern of findings led us to ask the question of where nouns and verbs of two different languages are represented in various areas in the brain in Chinese–English… 
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