ArticleDevelopmental science2022
Bilingualism alters infants' cortical organization for attentional orienting mechanisms.
Article in Developmental science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Missing the Mix: Perceiving Code-Switches as a Mechanism for Bilingual Adaptation.Child development perspectives · 2026Article
- Neural bases of sustained attention during naturalistic parent-infant interactions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Significant interactions in infant operculum regions when exposed to a bilingual environment: a resting-state fNIRS study.Neurophotonics · 2025Article
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- Atypical brain lateralization for speech processing at the sublexical level in autistic children revealed by fNIRS.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Mixed-Language Input and Infant Volubility: Friend or Foe?Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children.Brain and language · 2022Article
- Shared Multimodal Input Through Social Coordination: Infants With Monolingual and Bilingual Learning Experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
A bilingual environment is associated with changes in the brain's structure and function. Some suggest that bilingualism also improves higher-cognitive functions in infants as young as 6-months, yet whether this effect is associated with changes in the infant brain remains unknown. In the present study, we measured brain activity using functional near-infrared spectroscopy in monolingual- and bilingual-raised 6- and 10-month-old infants. Infants completed an orienting attention task, in which a cue was presented prior to an object appearing on the same (Valid) or opposite (Invalid) side of a display. Task performance did not differ between the groups but neural activity did. At 6-months, both groups showed greater activity for Valid (> Invalid) trials in frontal regions (left hemisphere for bilinguals, right hemisphere for monolinguals). At 10-months, bilinguals showed greater activity for Invalid (> Valid) trials in bilateral frontal regions, while monolinguals showed greater brain activity for Valid (> Invalid) trials in left frontal regions. Bilinguals' brain activity trended with their parents' reporting of dual-language mixing when speaking to their child. These findings are the first to indicate how early (dual) language experience can alter the cortical organization underlying broader, non-linguistic cognitive functions during the first year of life.
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