ArticleBilingualism (Cambridge, England)2016
The Functional Overlap of Executive Control and Language Processing in Bilinguals.
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- The Effect of Bilingualism on Production and Perception of Vocal Fry.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2023Article
- Genetic bases of language control in bilinguals: Evidence from an EEG study.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Investigating the Link Between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Cognitive Control in Bilinguals Using Laplacian-Transformed Event Related Potentials.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Article
- The Small and Efficient Language Network of Polyglots and Hyper-polyglots.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- Bilingualism, Executive Function, and the Brain: Implications for Autism.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Review
- Effect of Picture-Book Reading With Additive Audio on Bilingual Preschoolers' Prefrontal Activation: A Naturalistic Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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- Consequences of multilingualism for neural architecture.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2019Review
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Abstract
The need to control multiple languages is thought to require domain-general executive control (EC) in bilinguals such that the EC and language systems become interdependent. However, there has been no systematic investigation into how and where EC and language processes overlap in the bilingual brain. If the concurrent recruitment of EC during bilingual language processing is domain-general and extends to non-linguistic EC, we hypothesize that regions commonly involvement in language processing, linguistic EC, and non-linguistic EC may be selectively altered in bilinguals compared to monolinguals. A conjunction of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from a flanker task with linguistic and nonlinguistic distractors and a semantic categorization task showed functional overlap in the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) in bilinguals, whereas no overlap occurred in monolinguals. This research therefore identifies a neural locus of functional overlap of language and EC in the bilingual brain.
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