The neurological and cognitive aspects of bilingual language processing were examined in
late Russian–English bilinguals using headband-mounted eyetracking and functional
neuroimaging. A series of three eyetracking studies suggested that, at early stages of word
recognition, bilinguals can activate both languages in parallel, even when direct linguistic
input is in one language only. A functional neuroimaging study suggested that, although the
same general structures are active for both languages, differences within these general …