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TY - JOUR
T1 - Duration and extent of bilingual experience modulate neurocognitive outcomes
AU - DeLuca, Vincent
AU - Rothman, Jason
AU - Bialystok, Ellen
AU - Pliatsikas, Christos
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - The potential effects of bilingualism on executive control (EC) have been heavily debated. One possible source of discrepancy in the evidence may be that bilingualism tends to be treated as a monolithic category distinct from monolingualism. We address this possibility by examining the effects of different bilingual language experiences on brain activity related to EC performance. Participants were scanned (fMRI) while they performed a Flanker task. Behavioral data showed robust Flanker effects, not modulated by language experiences across participants. However, differences in duration of bilingual experience and extent of active language use predicted activation in distinct brain regions indicating differences in neural recruitment across conditions. This approach highlights the need to consider specific bilingual language experiences in assessing neurocognitive effects. It further underscores the utility and complementarity of neuroimaging evidence in this general line of research, contributing to a deeper understanding of the variability reported in the literature.
AB - The potential effects of bilingualism on executive control (EC) have been heavily debated. One possible source of discrepancy in the evidence may be that bilingualism tends to be treated as a monolithic category distinct from monolingualism. We address this possibility by examining the effects of different bilingual language experiences on brain activity related to EC performance. Participants were scanned (fMRI) while they performed a Flanker task. Behavioral data showed robust Flanker effects, not modulated by language experiences across participants. However, differences in duration of bilingual experience and extent of active language use predicted activation in distinct brain regions indicating differences in neural recruitment across conditions. This approach highlights the need to consider specific bilingual language experiences in assessing neurocognitive effects. It further underscores the utility and complementarity of neuroimaging evidence in this general line of research, contributing to a deeper understanding of the variability reported in the literature.
KW - Bilingualism
KW - Executive control
KW - fMRI
KW - Individual differences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073206531&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116222
DO - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116222
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31557543
AN - SCOPUS:85073206531
VL - 204
SP - 116222
JO - NeuroImage
JF - NeuroImage
SN - 1053-8119
M1 - 116222
ER -