• openAccess   An effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex 

      Ressel, Volker; Pallier, Christophe; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Díaz, Begoña; Roessler, Abeba; Avila, Cesar; Sebastián Gallés, Nuria Society for Neuroscience (2012-11)
      Two studies (Golestani et al., 2007; Wong et al., 2008) have reported a positive correlation between the ability to perceive foreign speech sounds and the volume of Heschl's gyrus (HG), the structure that houses the auditory ...
    • openAccess   Neural correlates of audiovisual speech processing in a second language 

      Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Visser, Maya; Alsius, Agnès; Pallier, Christophe; Avila, Cesar; Soto Faraco, Salvador Elsevier (2013-09)
      Neuroimaging studies of audiovisual speech processing have exclusively addressed listeners’ native language (L1). Yet, several behavioural studies now show that AV processing plays an important role in non-native (L2) ...