Xin Sun, Rebecca A Marks, Rachel L Eggleston, Kehui Zhang, Chi-Lin Yu, Nia Nickerson, Valeria Caruso, Tai-Li Chou, Xiao-Su Hu, Twila Tardif, James R Booth, Adriene M Beltz, Ioulia Kovelman
Diversity and variation in language experiences, such as bilingualism, contribute to heterogeneity in children's neural organization for language and brain development. To uncover sources of such heterogeneity in children's neural language networks, the present study examined the effects of bilingual proficiency on children's neural organization for language function. To do so, we took an innovative person-specific analytical approach to investigate young Chinese-English and Spanish-English bilingual learners of structurally distinct languages...
2023: Neurobiology of language