An fMRI study of English and Spanish word reading in bilingual adults.

ABSTRACT: Reading relies on a left-lateralized brain system, including occipito-temporal (OTC), temporo-parietal, and inferior frontal (IFC) cortices. Neuroimaging studies have investigated whether activation in these cortices is modulated by a language's orthographic depth (consistency of grapheme-to-phoneme conversion). In Spanish-English bilinguals, some but not all studies have reported activation differences between the two languages during reading. Here, we studied Spanish-English early bilingual adults living in the United States (N = 25; 17 females, 8 males). We examined local activity, functional connectivity, and spatially distributed activity patterns during English and Spanish word reading. We found overlap in local activity for the two languages in the left IFC, but no differences in ac

SUBMITTER: Brignoni-Perez E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7461633 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature