TY - JOUR

T1 - Bilingualism and brain functional asymmetry

AU - Chernigovskaya, Tatiana V.

AU - Balonov, Lev J.

AU - Deglin, Vadim L.

PY - 1983/11

Y1 - 1983/11

N2 - The task of the neural organization of the native language, acquired by a direct method and of another language, studied at school, performed correspondingly by the left and the right hemispheres, was studied in the bilingual patient after unilateral electroconvulsive therapy used in psychiatry. It was established that in such a bilingual type the right hemisphere is concerned with the formation of deep semantic structures of the native language while the left hemisphere is responsible for the formation of second language deep structures and of surface structures of both languages. The effect of language learning method on cerebral organization of bilingualism is postulated.

AB - The task of the neural organization of the native language, acquired by a direct method and of another language, studied at school, performed correspondingly by the left and the right hemispheres, was studied in the bilingual patient after unilateral electroconvulsive therapy used in psychiatry. It was established that in such a bilingual type the right hemisphere is concerned with the formation of deep semantic structures of the native language while the left hemisphere is responsible for the formation of second language deep structures and of surface structures of both languages. The effect of language learning method on cerebral organization of bilingualism is postulated.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0021049992&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/0093-934X(83)90042-1

DO - 10.1016/0093-934X(83)90042-1

M3 - Article

C2 - 6227372

AN - SCOPUS:0021049992

VL - 20

SP - 195

EP - 216

JO - Brain and Language

JF - Brain and Language

SN - 0093-934X

IS - 2

ER -