Functional connectivity changes in the language network (Price, 2010), and in a control
network involved in second language (L2) processing (Abutalebi & Green, 2007) were
examined in a group of Persian (L1) speakers learning French (L2) words. Measures of
network integration that characterize the global integrative state of a network (Marrelec,
Bellec et al., 2008) were gathered, in the shallow and consolidation phases of L2 vocabulary
learning. Functional connectivity remained unchanged across learning phases for L1 …