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Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining BrainEdited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4] 2021
► pp. 520–550
A new look at the question of the bilingual advantage
Dual mechanisms of cognitive control
Tanya Dash | Centre de recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal
Pierre Berroir | Centre de recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal
Ladan Ghazi-Saidi | University of Nebraska at Kearney
Daniel Adrover-Roig | University of the Balearic Islands
Ana Inés Ansaldo | Centre de recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal
Bilingualism has been associated with age-related cognitive
advantage. It is important to study cognitive control mechanisms to better
understand this phenomenon. We sought to examine proactive and reactive control,
as measured by fast and slow responses, respectively. The neural underpinnings
of these modes of control were studied in rigorously matched elderly
monolinguals and bilinguals, using fMRI performance on a Simon task. The results
indicate that bilinguals performed efficiently in proactive mode, as more
activation and connectivity were observed in the monolinguals. On the other
hand, the monolinguals functioned more efficiently in reactive mode, recruiting
fewer brain areas than the bilinguals. These results suggest that bilinguals’
function effortlessly and economically in proactive mode, which is preserved
through lifelong use of languages, whereas monolinguals are efficient in
reactive mode, which they use more often as a consequence of aging. Thus,
frequent use in daily life contributes to efficient functioning in the
respective mode of control.
Keywords: bilingualism, dual mechanisms of cognitive control, ageing
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Purpose of the study
- 1.2Review of the literature
- 2.Method
- 2.1Language background and neuropsychological assessment
- 2.2Simon task during event-related fMRI scanning
- 2.2.1Data analysis for the Simon task (behavioral)
- 2.3Image acquisition
- 2.4Image processing
- 2.5Functional brain connectivity analysis with small-world network
- 3.Results
- 3.1Behavioral results
- 3.2Neuroimaging results
- 3.2.1Disjunction analysis
- 3.2.2Functional connectivity analysis
- 3.3Correlations between neuroimaging and neuropsychological measures and language task
- 4.Discussion
- Acknowledgements
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Published online: 29 April 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18036.das
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18036.das
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