A role for the cerebellum in the control of verbal interference: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual adults.

ABSTRACT: We evaluate brain structure sensitivity to verbal interference in a sentence interpretation task, building on previously reported evidence that those with better control of verbal interference show higher grey matter density in the posterior paravermis of the right cerebellum. We compare brain structure sensitivity to verbal interference control across two groups, English monolingual (N = 41) and multilingual (N = 46) adults. Using voxel-based morphometry, our primary goal was to identify and explore differences in regional patterns of grey matter sensitivity to performance on the sentence interpretation task, controlling for group variability in age, nonverbal reasoning and vocabulary knowledge. There was no group difference in performance but there was a significant group effect in grey

SUBMITTER: Filippi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7173859 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature