Bilingual cognitive control in language switching: an fMRI study of English-Chinese late bilinguals.

The present study explored the bilingual cognitive control mechanism by comparing Chinese-English bilinguals' language switching in a blocked picture naming paradigm against three baseline conditions, namely the control condition (a fixation cross, low-level baseline), single L1 production (Chi...

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Main Authors: Hengfen Ma, Jiehui Hu, Jie Xi, Wen Shen, Jianqiao Ge, Feng Geng, Yuntao Wu, Jinjin Guo, Dezhong Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4152243?pdf=render