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Imaging bilinguals: When the neurosciences meet the languange sciences
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The starting point of our investigation was the longstanding notion that bilingual individuals need effective mechanisms to prevent interference from one language while processing material in the other (e.g. Penfield and Roberts, 1959). To demonstrate how the prevention of interference is implemented in the brain we employed event-related brain potentials (ERPs; see Munte, Urbach, ¨ Duzel and Kutas, 2000, for an introductory review) ¨ and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques, thus pursuing a combined temporal and spatial imaging approach. In contrast to previous investigations using neuroimaging techniques in bilinguals, which had been mainly concerned with the localization of the primary and secondary languages (e.g. Perani, Paulesu, Galles, Dupoux, Dehaene, Bettinardi, Cappa, Fazio and Mehler, 1998; Chee, Caplan, Soon, Sriram, Tan, Thiel and Weekes, 1999), our study addressed the dynamic aspects of bilingual language processing.
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GROSJEAN, François, et al. Imaging bilinguals: When the neurosciences meet the languange sciences. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 2003. Vol. 6, num. 2, pags. 159-165. ISSN 1366-7289. [consulted: 8 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/65266