Mandarin and English single word processing studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging

MWL Chee, EWL Tan, T Thiel - Journal of neuroscience, 1999 - Soc Neuroscience
The cortical organization of language in bilinguals remains disputed. We studied 24 right-
handed fluent bilinguals: 15 exposed to both Mandarin and English before the age of 6 …

Where, when and why brain activation differs for bilinguals and monolinguals during picture naming and reading aloud

Ō Parker Jones, DW Green, A Grogan… - Cerebral …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we found that when bilinguals named
pictures or read words aloud, in their native or nonnative language, activation was higher …

Articulation in early and late bilinguals' two languages: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging

C Frenck-Mestre, JL Anton, M Roth, J Vaid, F Viallet - Neuroreport, 2005 - journals.lww.com
The network of cortical and subcortical regions that contribute to articulation was examined
in bilinguals using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants were all fluent in …

Bilingual and monolingual brains compared: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of syntactic processing and a possible “neural signature” of …

I Kovelman, SA Baker, LA Petitto - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2008 - direct.mit.edu
Does the brain of a bilingual process language differently from that of a monolingual? We
compared how bilinguals and monolinguals recruit classic language brain areas in …

Neural activation in speech production and reading aloud in native and non-native languages

JA Berken, VL Gracco, JK Chen, KE Watkins, S Baum… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
We used fMRI to investigate neural activation in reading aloud in bilinguals differing in age
of acquisition. Three groups were compared: French–English bilinguals who acquired two …

Neural basis of single‐word reading in Spanish–English bilinguals

NI Jamal, AW Piche, EM Napoliello… - Human brain …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Brain imaging studies have identified a left‐lateralized network of regions that are engaged
when monolinguals read. However, for individuals who are native speakers of two …

Multilingualism: an fMRI study

G Vingerhoets, J Van Borsel, C Tesink… - Neuroimage, 2003 - Elsevier
To investigate the hypothesis that in multilingual speakers different languages are
represented in distinct brain regions, 12 multilingual right-handed men performed a word …

Distinct distributed patterns of neural activity are associated with two languages in the bilingual brain

M Xu, D Baldauf, CQ Chang, R Desimone, LH Tan - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
A large body of previous neuroimaging studies suggests that multiple languages are
processed and organized in a single neuroanatomical system in the bilingual brain …

Activity levels in the left hemisphere caudate–fusiform circuit predict how well a second language will be learned

LH Tan, L Chen, V Yip, AHD Chan… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
How second language (L2) learning is achieved in the human brain remains one of the
fundamental questions of neuroscience and linguistics. Previous neuroimaging studies with …

Anatomical variability in the cortical representation of first and second language

S Dehaene, E Dupoux, J Mehler, L Cohen… - …, 1997 - journals.lww.com
FUNCTIONAL magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess inter-subject variability in
the cortical representation of language comprehension processes. Moderately fluent French …