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LanguageBrains

Brain Structure in Bilingual Humans


Description

Proficiency score (summary of reading, writing, and speech) in subjects' second language and density of gray matter in the left inferior parietal region.

Format

A data frame with 22 observations on the following 2 variables.

proficiency

a numeric vector

greymatter

a numeric vector

Source

Mechelli, A., J.T. Crinion, U. Noppeney, J. O'Doherty, J. Ashburner, R.S. Frackowiak, and C.J. Price. 2004. Structural plasticity in the bilingual brain. Nature 431: 757.

Examples

str(LanguageBrains)
xyplot(proficiency ~ greymatter, LanguageBrains)

abd

The Analysis of Biological Data

v0.2-8
GPL-2
Authors
Kevin M. Middleton <middletonk@missouri.edu>, Randall Pruim <rpruim@calvin.edu>
Initial release
2015-07-02

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