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Aktivitätsmuster im Gehirn: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten beim Verstehen von Erst- und Zweitsprache

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Mueller,  Jutta L.
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Rüschemeyer,  Shirley-Ann
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Friederici,  Angela D.
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Mueller, J. L., Rüschemeyer, S.-A., & Friederici, A. D. (2006). Aktivitätsmuster im Gehirn: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten beim Verstehen von Erst- und Zweitsprache. Neuroforum, 2, 176-184.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-9B91-E
Abstract
Patterns of brain activity: Similarities and differences in first and second language comprehension. The capability to understand and use language is a uniquely human skill, the specific neural mechanisms of which remain largely elusive. In the past decade neuropsychologists and linguists have worked together to try to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding every day language processing. It has been shown with the help of neurophysiological measurements that the processing of language is broken down by the brain into linguistically relevant subcomponents (such as processing of grammati - cal structure or conceptual information). In the first part of this article we report on what neurophysiological research can tell us about how language is processed by the human brain. In the second part of the article we diverge to look at language processing in non-native speakers of a language. Specifically late learners of a second language provide an interesting background for looking at the plasticity of the human brain. Neurophysiological studies on non-native language processing are introduced and the results are discussed in the context of life long learning and development.