ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General2021
Prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has a domain-specific impact on bilingual language control.
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- Optimizing cognitive control through the interaction between stimulation intensity and duration in single-site and dual-site tDCS.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Modeling dyslexia in neurotypical adults by combining neuroimaging and neuromodulation techniques: a hypothesis paper.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Bilingual Language Switching and Non-Linguistic Task-Switching: Evidence from Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis.Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Switching off: disruptive TMS reveals distinct contributions of the posterior middle temporal gyrus and angular gyrus to bilingual speech production.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Bilingualism and Aging: Implications for (Delaying) Neurocognitive Decline.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Review
- General principles governing the amount of neuroanatomical overlap between languages in bilinguals.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Do Bilinguals Outperform Monolinguals in Switching Tasks? Contrary Evidence for Nonlinguistic and Linguistic Switching Tasks.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Article
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Researchers debate whether domain-general cognitive control supports bilingual language control through brain regions such as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a method to alter brain activity, which can lead to causal attribution of task performance to regional brain activity. The current study examined whether the DLPFC enables domain-general control for between-language switching and nonlinguistic switching and whether the control enabled by DLPFC differs between bilinguals and monolinguals. tDCS was applied to the DLPFC of bilingual and monolingual young adults before they performed linguistic and nonlinguistic switching measures. For bilinguals, left DLPFC stimulation selectively worsened nonlinguistic switching, but not within-language switching. Left DLPFC stimulation also resulted in higher overall accuracy on bilingual picture-naming. These findings suggest that language control and cognitive control are distinct processes in relation to the left DLPFC. The left DLPFC may aid bilingual language control, but stimulating it does not benefit nonlinguistic control. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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