Brain Structure in Bilingual Humans

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

Usage

LanguageBrains

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)
#> 'data.frame':	22 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ proficiency: num  0.26 0.44 0.89 1.26 1.69 1.97 1.98 2.24 2.24 2.58 ...
#>  $ greymatter : num  -0.07 -0.08 -0.008 -0.009 -0.023 -0.009 -0.036 -0.029 -0.008 -0.023 ...
xyplot(proficiency ~ greymatter, LanguageBrains)