LanguageBrains {abd} | R Documentation |
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)
[Package abd version 0.2-8 Index]