Neuroanatomy, episodic memory and inhibitory control of persian-kurdish simultaneous bilinguals.

ABSTRACT: We assessed simultaneous bilinguals and monolinguals on inhibitory control and episodic memory, and assessed their grey matter volumes in brain regions known to be involved in language processing, executive control and memory. Bilinguals outperformed monolinguals on episodic memory, and performance on the memory and inhibition tasks were correlated, only in the bilingual group. This suggests that the bilingualism-related benefits on memory are related to individual differences in executive control. We found larger grey matter volumes in bilinguals in left pars opercularis and in bilateral SFG, caudate nuclei, and parasubiculum. Episodic memory performance was correlated with volumes of bilateral posterior hippocampi, again only in the bilinguals, again suggesting that bilingualism may be d

SUBMITTER: Golshani S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11589158 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature