Intersecting distributed networks support convergent linguistic functioning across different languages in bilinguals.

ABSTRACT: How bilingual brains accomplish the processing of more than one language has been widely investigated by neuroimaging studies. The assimilation-accommodation hypothesis holds that both the same brain neural networks supporting the native language and additional new neural networks are utilized to implement second language processing. However, whether and how this hypothesis applies at the finer-grained levels of both brain anatomical organization and linguistic functions remains unknown. To address this issue, we scanned Chinese-English bilinguals during an implicit reading task involving Chinese words, English words and Chinese pinyin. We observed broad brain cortical regions wherein interdigitated distributed neural populations supported the same cognitive components of different languag

SUBMITTER: Geng S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9876897 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature