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17433384

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-5-2
pubmed:abstractText
Two meta-analyses of 66 behavioral studies examined variables influencing functional cerebral lateralization of each language of brain-intact bilingual adults. Functional lateralization was found to be primarily influenced by age of onset of bilingualism: bilinguals who acquired both languages by 6 years of age showed bilateral hemispheric involvement for both languages, whereas those who acquired their second language after age 6 showed left hemisphere dominance for both languages. Moreover, among late bilinguals, left hemisphere involvement was found to be greater for those less proficient in their second language, those whose second language was English, and for studies involving dichotic listening paradigms; early bilinguals instead showed bilateral involvement in every condition. Implications of the observed differences in lateralization between early and late bilinguals are explored for existing theories of bilingualism and for neurocognitive models of brain functional organization of language.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0028-3932
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1987-2008
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Bilingual language lateralization: a meta-analytic tale of two hemispheres.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USA. rhull@tamu.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review