Differential neural control in early bilinguals and monolinguals during response inhibition  

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Rodriguez-Pujadas, Aina ; Sanjuan, Ana ; Fuentes, Paola ; Ventura-Campos, Noelia ; Barros-Loscertales, Alfonso ; Avila, Cesar

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 132 (2014), page 43-51.
Topik: Early bilingualism; Executive control; Stop task; Anterior cingulate cortex
Fulltext: 132_Rodr-guez-Pujadas.pdf (865.97KB)

Isi artikel

We tested the hypothesis that early bilinguals and monolinguals use different brain areas when performing nonlinguistic executive control tasks. For this, we explored brain activity of early bilinguals and monolinguals during a manual stop-signal paradigm. Behaviorally, bilinguals and monolinguals did not show significant differences in the task, which led us to compare brain activation that cannot be attributed to differences in performance. Analyses demonstrated that monolinguals activated the anterior cingulate cortex more than bilinguals when performing the stop-signal task. These results offer direct support for the notion that early bilingualism exerts an effect on neural circuitry responsible for executive control. Consistent with recent reports, we found that bilinguals used the anterior cingulate more efficiently than monolinguals to monitor nonlinguistic cognitive conflicts.

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