Explicit Performance in Girls and Implicit Processing in Boys: A Simultaneous fNIRS–ERP Study on Second Language Syntactic Learning in Young Adolescents

Explicit Performance in Girls and Implicit Processing in Boys: A Simultaneous fNIRS–ERP Study on Second Language Syntactic Learning in Young Adolescents

Learning a second language (L2) proceeds with individual approaches to proficiency in the language. Individual differences including sex, as well as working memory (WM) function appear to have strong effects on behavioral performance and cortical responses in L2 processing. Thus, by considering sex...

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Main Authors: Lisa Sugiura, Masahiro Hata, Hiroko Matsuba-Kurita, Minako Uga, Daisuke Tsuzuki, Ippeita Dan, Hiroko Hagiwara, Fumitaka Homae
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
proficiency
sex differences
working memory
sentence
phrase structure
syntax
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00062/full

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