In this review we will focus on delineating the neural substrates of the executive control of
language in the bilingual brain, based on the existing neuroimaging, intracranial …

Advances in neuroimaging techniques and analytic methods have led to a proliferation of
studies investigating the impact of bilingualism on the cognitive and brain systems in …

The increasing number of experimental studies on second language (L2) processing,
frequently with English as the L2, calls for a practical and valid measure of English …

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we neuroimaged deaf adults as they
performed two linguistic tasks with sentences in American Sign Language, grammatical …

Abstract Language experience shapes infants' abilities to process speech sounds, with
universal phonetic discrimination abilities narrowing in the second half of the first year. Brain …

Despite decades of cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies, it is unclear if
letters are identified before word-form encoding during reading, or if letters and their …

The assimilation hypothesis argues that second language learning recruits the brain
network for processing the native language, whereas the accommodation hypothesis argues …

The role of the sensorimotor system in second language (L2) semantic processing as well
as its clinical implications for bilingual patients has hitherto been neglected. We offer an …

Acquiring a new language requires individuals to simultaneously and gradually learn
linguistic attributes on multiple levels. Here, we investigated how this learning process …

Second language learning becomes increasingly difficult with age, but some adults learn
more successfully than others. We examined whether inter-subject variability in the …