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Right inferior frontal gyrus: An integrative hub in tonal bilinguals.
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Abstract
Right hemispheric dominance in tonal bilingualism is still controversial. In this study, we investigated hemispheric dominance in 30 simultaneous Bai-Mandarin tonal bilinguals and 28 Mandarin monolinguals using multimodal neuroimaging. Resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) analysis was first performed to reveal the changes of functional connections within the language-related network. Voxel-based morphology (VBM) and tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) analyses were then used to identify bilinguals' alterations in gray matter volume (GMV) and fractional anisotropy (FA) of white matter, respectively. RSFC analyses revealed significantly increased functional connections of the right pars-orbital part of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) with right caudate, right pars-opercular part of IFG, and left inferior temporal gyrus in Bai-Mandarin bilinguals compared to monolinguals. VBM and TBSS analyses further identified significantly greater GMV in right pars-triangular IFG and increased FA in right superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) in bilinguals than in monolinguals. Taken together, these results demonstrate the integrative role of the right IFG in tonal language processing of bilinguals. Our findings suggest that the intrinsic language network in simultaneous tonal bilinguals differs from that of monolinguals in terms of both function and structure.
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