(Pushing) the Limits of Neuroplasticity Induced by Adult Language Acquisition

• Autor principal: Maria Carmen Parafita Couto (auth)
• Outros Autores: Niels Schiller (auth), Yiya Chen (auth), Leticia Pablos-Robles (auth), Patrick Wong (auth), Jurriaan Witteman (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Colecção: Frontiers Research Topics
• Assuntos: Psychology; Brain; Language; plasticity; bilingualism
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Most adults attempt to learn a second or even third language at some point in their life. Since language exposure is one of the most intense cognitive training regimes one can encounter, it is not surprising that previous research has shown that multilingualism can induce profound change in the brai...