Sources of Heterogeneity in Functional Connectivity During English Word Processing in Bilingual and Monolingual Children.

ABSTRACT: Diversity and variation in language experiences, such as bilingualism, contribute to heterogeneity in children's neural organization for language and brain development. To uncover sources of such heterogeneity in children's neural language networks, the present study examined the effects of bilingual proficiency on children's neural organization for language function. To do so, we took an innovative person-specific analytical approach to investigate young Chinese-English and Spanish-English bilingual learners of structurally distinct languages. Bilingual and English monolingual children (N = 152, M(SD)_age = 7.71(1.32)) completed an English word recognition task during functional near-infrared spectroscopy neuroimaging, along with language and literacy tasks

SUBMITTER: Sun X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10205148 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature