Earlier second language acquisition is associated with greater neural pattern dissimilarity between the first and second languages.

Abstract:

:It is controversial as to how age of acquisition (AoA) and proficiency level of the second language influence the similarities and differences between the first (L1) and the second (L2) language brain networks. In this functional MRI study, we used representational similarity analysis to quantify the degree of neural similarity between L1 and L2 during sentence comprehension tasks in 26 adult Chinese-English bilinguals, who learned English as L2 at different ages and had different proficiency levels. We found that although L1 and L2 processing activated similar brain regions, greater neural pattern dissimilarity between L1 and L2 was associated with earlier AoA in the left inferior and middle frontal gyri after the effect of proficiency level was controlled. On the other hand, the association between proficiency level and the neural pattern dissimilarity between L1 and L2 was not significant when the effect of AoA was partialled out. The results suggest that the activity pattern of L2 is more distinct from that of L1 in bilingual individuals who acquired L2 earlier and that the contribution of AoA to the neural pattern dissimilarity is greater than that of proficiency level.

journal_name

Brain Lang

journal_title

Brain and language

authors

Ou J,Li W,Yang Y,Wang N,Xu M

doi

10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104740

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-04-01 00:00:00

pages

104740

eissn

0093-934X

issn

1090-2155

pii

S0093-934X(19)30356-6

journal_volume

203

pub_type

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