期刊
BRAIN SCIENCES
卷 10, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10080517
关键词
bilingualism; language control; whole-language inhibition; item-specific inhibition; TMS; pre-SMA
资金
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders [CE110001021]
- Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (RTP)
- Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (MQRES)
- Australian Research Council [DE130100868, DP170103148]
A prominent theory of bilingual speech production holds that appropriate language selection is achieved via inhibitory control. Such inhibition may operate on the whole-language and/or item-specific level. In this study, we examined these two levels of control in parallel, by introducing a novel element into the traditional cued language switching paradigm: half of the stimuli were univalent (each required naming in the same language every time it appeared), and the other half were bivalent (each required naming in different languages on different trials). Contrasting switch and stay trials provided an index for whole-language inhibition, while contrasting bivalent and univalent stimuli provided an index for item-specific inhibition. We then investigated the involvement of domain-general brain mechanisms in these two levels of language control. Neuroimaging studies report activation of the pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA), a key region in the executive control brain network, during language switching tasks. However, it is unclear whether or not the pre-SMA plays a causal role in language control, and at which level it exerts control. Using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to transiently disrupt the pre-SMA, we observed an essential role of this brain region in general speech execution, while evidence for its specific involvement in each level of inhibition remains inconclusive.
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