ArticleBrain and language2020
Cognitive control regions are recruited in bilinguals' silent reading of mixed-language paragraphs.
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- An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis of How Language Balance Impacts the Neural Basis of Bilingual Language Control.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Syntax drives default language selection in bilingual connected speech production.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2025Article
- Mapping Cognition in Epilepsy: From the Lab to the Clinic.Epilepsy currents · 2024Review
- Inhibitory control of the dominant language: Reversed language dominance is the tip of the iceberg.Journal of memory and language · 2023Article
- Contributions of Demographics, Language Learning Experience, and Cognitive Control to Chinese Reading Comprehension.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Interactive influence of self and other language behaviors: Evidence from switching between bilingual production and comprehension.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
- Explaining Individual Differences in Executive Functions Performance in Multilinguals: The Impact of Code-Switching and Alternating Between Multicultural Identity Styles.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
When switching languages, bilinguals recruit a language control network that overlaps with brain regions known to support general cognitive control, but it is unclear whether these same regions are recruited in passive comprehension of language switches. Using fMRI with a blocked design, 24 Spanish-English bilinguals silently read 36 paragraphs in which the default language was Spanish or English, and that had either (1) no switches, (2) function word switches or (3) content word switches. Relative to no switches, function switches activated the right IFG, bilateral MFG, and left IPL/SMG. In contrast, switching on content words produced limited neural switching costs observed only in the left IFG. Switching into the dominant language was more costly in the right SMG than switching into the nondominant language, and neural switching costs were correlated with switching costs in the dominant language in cued picture-naming. Seemingly passive reading comprehension involves brain regions known to support cognitive control in active switching during production, possibly reflecting the operation of a modality-general switch mechanism.
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