@article{PeraniAbutalebi2005,
  author    = {Perani, Daniela and Abutalebi, Jubin},
  title     = {The neural basis of first and second language processing},
  issn      = {0959-4388},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Fundamental breakthroughs in the neurosciences, combined with technical innovations for measuring brain activity, are shedding new light on the neural basis of second language (L2) processing, and on its relationship to native language processing (L1). The long-held assumption that L1 and L2 are necessarily represented in different brain regions in bilinguals has not been confirmed. On the contrary, the available evidence indicates that L1 and L2 are processed by the same neural devices. The neural differences in L1 and L2 representations are only related to the specific computational demands, which vary according to the age of acquisition, the degree of mastery and the level of exposure to each language. Finally, the acquisition of L2 could be considered as a dynamic process, requiring additional neural resources in specific circumstances},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{VitaliAbutalebiTettamantietal.2005,
  author    = {Vitali, P. and Abutalebi, Jubin and Tettamanti, M. and Rowe, J. and Scifo, P. and Fazio, F. and Cappa, Stefano F. and Perani, Daniela},
  title     = {Generating animal and tool names : an fMRI study of effective connectivity},
  issn      = {0093-934X},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {The present fMRI study of semantic fluency for animal and tool names provides further evidence for category- specific brain activations, and reports task-related changes in effective connectivity among defined cerebral regions. Two partially segregated systems of functional integration were highlighted: the tool condition was associated with an enhancement of connectivity within left hemispheric regions, including the inferior prefrontal and premotor cortex, the inferior parietal lobule and the temporo-occipital junction; the animal condition was associated with greater coupling among left visual associative regions. These category-specific functional differences extend the evidence for anatomical specialization to lexical search tasks, and provide for the first time evidence of category-specific patterns of functional integration in word-retrieval. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WartenburgerHeekerenAbutalebietal.2003,
  author    = {Wartenburger, Isabell and Heekeren, Hauke R. and Abutalebi, Jubin and Cappa, Stefano F. and Villringer, Arno and Perani, Daniela},
  title     = {Early setting of grammatical processing in the bilingual brain},
  issn      = {0896-6273},
  year      = {2003},
  language  = {en}
}