Abstract：
:Bilingual individuals have been shown to outperform monolinguals on a variety of tasks that measure non-linguistic executive functioning, suggesting that some facets of the bilingual experience give rise to generalized improvements in cognitive performance. The current study investigated the hypothesis that such advantage in executive functioning arises from the need to flexibly select and apply rules when speaking multiple languages. Such flexible behavior may strengthen the functioning of the fronto-striatal loops that direct signals to the prefrontal cortex. To test this hypothesis, we compared behavioral and brain data from proficient bilinguals and monolinguals who performed a Rapid Instructed Task Learning paradigm, which requires behaving according to ever-changing rules. Consistent with our hypothesis, bilinguals were faster than monolinguals when executing novel rules, and this improvement was associated with greater modulation of activity in the basal ganglia. The implications of these findings for language and executive function research are discussed herein.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Stocco A,Prat CSdoi
10.1016/j.bandl.2014.07.005subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-10-01 00:00:00pages
50-61eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
S0093-934X(14)00102-3journal_volume
137pub_type
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