Language Control in the Bilingual Brain Export

@article{citeulike:691779, abstract = {How does the bilingual brain distinguish and control which language is in use? Previous functional imaging experiments have not been able to answer this question because proficient bilinguals activate the same brain regions irrespective of the language being tested. Here, we reveal that neuronal responses within the left caudate are sensitive to changes in the language or the meaning of words. By demonstrating this effect in populations of German-English and Japanese-English bilinguals, we suggest that the left caudate plays a universal role in monitoring and controlling the language in use. 10.1126/science.1127761}, author = {Crinion, J. and Turner, R. and Grogan, A. and Hanakawa, T. and Noppeney, U. and Devlin, J. T. and Aso, T. and Urayama, S. and Fukuyama, H. and Stockton, K. and Usui, K. and Green, D. W. and Price, C. J.}, citeulike-article-id = {691779}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1127761}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/312/5779/1537}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16763154}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16763154}, day = {9}, doi = {10.1126/science.1127761}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {bilingual, brain, caudate, language}, month = {June}, number = {5779}, pages = {1537--1540}, posted-at = {2008-05-29 20:06:06}, priority = {2}, title = {Language Control in the Bilingual Brain}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1127761}, volume = {312}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:691779 L3 - citeulike-article-id:691779 N2 - How does the bilingual brain distinguish and control which language is in use? Previous functional imaging experiments have not been able to answer this question because proficient bilinguals activate the same brain regions irrespective of the language being tested. Here, we reveal that neuronal responses within the left caudate are sensitive to changes in the language or the meaning of words. By demonstrating this effect in populations of German-English and Japanese-English bilinguals, we suggest that the left caudate plays a universal role in monitoring and controlling the language in use. 10.1126/science.1127761 IS - 5779 JF - Science EP - 1540 TI - Language Control in the Bilingual Brain VL - 312 SP - 1537 KW - bilingual KW - brain KW - caudate KW - language AU - Crinion, J AU - Turner, R AU - Grogan, A AU - Hanakawa, T AU - Noppeney, U AU - Devlin, JT AU - Aso, T AU - Urayama, S AU - Fukuyama, H AU - Stockton, K AU - Usui, K AU - Green, DW AU - Price, CJ PY - 2006/06/09/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1127761 ER -