Language comprehension in the bilingual brain: fMRI and ERP support for psycholinguistic models

WJB Van Heuven, T Dijkstra - Brain research reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review issues in bilingual language comprehension in the light of functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related brain potential (ERP) data. Next, we …

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 …

Review of recent research on kanji processing, learning, and instruction

Y Mori - Japanese Language and Literature, 2014 - JSTOR
This review aims to identify major issues and current trends in research on kanji learning
and instruction with respect to Japanese as a second language (L2) by reviewing over 90 …

How does language distance between L1 and L2 affect the L2 brain network? An fMRI study of Korean–Chinese–English trilinguals

SY Kim, T Qi, X Feng, G Ding, L Liu, F Cao - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study tested the hypothesis that language distance between first language (L1)
and second language (L2) influences the assimilation and accommodation pattern in …

Meta-analysis of the neural representation of first language and second language

R Sebastian, AR Laird, S Kiran - Applied psycholinguistics, 2011 - cambridge.org
This study reports an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of published functional
neuroimaging studies of bilingualism. Four parallel meta-analyses were conducted by taking …

Stuttering in English–Mandarin bilingual speakers: The influence of language dominance on stuttering severity

VPC Lim, M Lincoln, YH Chan, M Onslow - 2008 - ASHA
Purpose English and Mandarin are the 2 most spoken languages in the world, yet it is not
known how stuttering manifests in English–Mandarin bilinguals. In this research, the authors …

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 …

The brain adapts to orthography with experience: Evidence from English and Chinese

F Cao, C Brennan, JR Booth - Developmental Science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we examined the process of language
specialization in the brain by comparing developmental changes in two contrastive …

Data-driven cross-lingual syntax: An agreement study with massively multilingual models

AG Varda, M Marelli - Computational Linguistics, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Massively multilingual models such as mBERT and XLM-R are increasingly valued in
Natural Language Processing research and applications, due to their ability to tackle the …

[HTML][HTML] Where arithmetic and phonology meet: the meta-analytic convergence of arithmetic and phonological processing in the brain

C Pollack, NC Ashby - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2018 - Elsevier
Arithmetic facts can be solved using different strategies. Research suggests that some
arithmetic problems, particularly those solved by fact retrieval, are related to phonological …