Received: MaAccepted: JPublished: September 13, 2013Ĭopyright: © 2013 Rodríguez-Pujadas et al. PLoS ONE 8(9):Įditor: Antonio Verdejo García, University of Granada, Spain (2013) Bilinguals Use Language-Control Brain Areas More Than Monolinguals to Perform Non-Linguistic Switching Tasks. This effect partially involves the recruitment of brain areas involved in language control when performing domain-general executive control tasks, highlighting the cross-talk between these two domains.Ĭitation: Rodríguez-Pujadas A, Sanjuán A, Ventura-Campos N, Román P, Martin C, Barceló F, et al. Results offer direct support for the notion that, early bilingualism exerts an effect in the neural circuitry responsible for executive control. Despite the lack of behavioural differences between both groups, early bilinguals used language-control areas – such as left caudate, and left inferior and middle frontal gyri – more than monolinguals, when performing the switching task. Crucially, the task was designed such that the behavioural performance of the two groups was comparable, allowing then to have a safer comparison between the corresponding brain activity in the two groups.
Monolingual vs bilingual brain trial#
We do so by exploring the brain activity of early bilinguals and monolinguals in a task-switching paradigm using an embedded critical trial design. We tested the hypothesis that early bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals when performing non-linguistic executive control tasks.
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