Free Language Selection in the Bilingual Brain: An Event-Related fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: Bilingual speakers may select between two languages either on demand (forced language selection) or on their own volition (free language selection). However, the neural substrates underlying free and forced language selection may differ. While the neural substrates underlying forced language selection have been well-explored with language switching paradigms, those underlying free language selection have remained unclear. Using a modified digit-naming switching paradigm, we addressed the neural substrates underlying free language selection by contrasting free language switching with forced language switching. For a digit-pair trial, Chinese-English bilinguals named each digit in Chinese or English either on demand under forced language selection condition or on their own volition under fre

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503947 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature