Despite substantial research on the brain mechanisms of L1 and L2 processing in
bilinguals, it is still unknown whether language modality (ie, visual vs. auditory) plays a role …

Neuroimaging studies investigating bilingual processes have produced controversial results
in determining similarities versus differences between L1 and L2 neural networks. The …

It is unclear whether the brain activity during phonological processing of second languages
(L2) is similar to that of the first language (L1) in trilingual individuals, especially when the L1 …

Although research has now converged towards a consensus that both languages of a
bilingual are represented in at least partly shared systems for language comprehension, it …

To examine how L1 influences L2 reading in the brain, two late bilingual groups, Korean-
English (KE) and Chinese-English (CE), performed a visual word rhyming judgment task in …

The present study tested the hypothesis that language distance between first language (L1)
and second language (L2) influences the assimilation and accommodation pattern in …

The functional brain network of a bilingual's first language (L1) plays a crucial role in
shaping that of his or her second language (L2). However, it is less clear how L2 acquisition …

Notwithstanding rising interest, a coherent picture of the brain's representation of two
languages has not yet been achieved. In the present meta-analysis we analysed a large …

Previous studies have investigated factors related to the degree of cross‐language overlap
in brain activations in bilinguals/multilinguals. However, it is still unclear whether and how …

Current theories of bilingualism disagree on the extent to which separate brain regions are
used to maintain or process one's first and second language. The present study took a novel …