期刊
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
卷 150, 期 -, 页码 80-89出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.07.011
关键词
Bilingualism; Sentence comprehension; Native language processing; fMRI
资金
- Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain [PSI 2009-10067, PSI 2014-47604-R]
- BRAINGLOT, a Spanish Research Network on Bilingualism and Cognitive Neuroscience (Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain) [CSD2007-00012]
Research has shown that semantic processing of sentences engages more activity in the bilingual compared to the monolingual brain and, more specifically, in the inferior frontal gyrus. The present study aims to extend those results and examines whether semantic and also grammatical sentence processing involve different cerebral structures when testing in the native language. In this regard, highly proficient Spanish/Catalan bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals made grammatical and semantic judgments in Spanish while being scanned. Results showed that both types of judgments recruited more cerebral activity for bilinguals in language-related areas including the superior and middle temporal gyri. Such neural differences co-occurred with similar performance at the behavioral level. Taken together, these data suggest that early bilingualism shapes the brain and cognitive processes in sentence comprehension even in their native language; on the other hand, they indicate that brain over activation in bilinguals is not constrained to a specific area. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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