Large-scale investigation of white matter structural differences in bilingual and monolingual children: An adolescent brain cognitive development data study.

ABSTRACT: Emerging research has provided valuable insights into the structural characteristics of the bilingual brain from studies of bilingual adults; however, there is a dearth of evidence examining brain structural alterations in childhood associated with the bilingual experience. This study examined the associations between bilingualism and white matter organization in bilingual children compared to monolingual peers leveraging the large-scale data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Then, 446 bilingual children (ages 9-10) were identified from the participants in the ABCD data and rigorously matched to a group of 446 monolingual peers. Multiple regression models for selected language and cognitive control white matter pathways were used to compare white matter fraction

SUBMITTER: Ronderos J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10836175 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature