Predicting multilingual effects on executive function and individual connectomes in children: An ABCD study.

ABSTRACT: While there is a substantial amount of work studying multilingualism's effect on cognitive functions, little is known about how the multilingual experience modulates the brain as a whole. In this study, we analyzed data of over 1,000 children from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study to examine whether monolinguals and multilinguals differ in executive function, functional brain connectivity, and brain-behavior associations. We observed significantly better performance from multilingual children than monolinguals in working-memory tasks. In one finding, we were able to classify multilinguals from monolinguals using only their whole-brain functional connectome at rest and during an emotional n-back task. Compared to monolinguals, the multilingual group had different funct

SUBMITTER: Kwon YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8670526 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature