Neural basis of bilingual language control
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Acquiring and speaking a second language increases demand on the processes of language control for bilingual as compared to monolingual speakers. Language control for bilingual speakers involves the ability to keep the two languages separated to avoid interference and to select one language or the other in a given conversational context. This ability is what we refer with the term “bilingual language control” (BLC). It is now well established that the architecture of this complex system of language control encompasses brain networks involving cortical and subcortical structures, each responsible for different cognitive processes such as goal maintenance, conflict monitoring, interference suppression, and selective response inhibition. Furthermore, advances have been made in determining the overlap between the BLC and the nonlinguistic executive control networks, under the hypothesis that the BLC processes are just an instantiation of a more domain‐general control system. Here, we review the current knowledge about the neural basis of these control systems. Results from brain imaging studies of healthy adults and on the performance of bilingual individuals with brain damage are discussed.
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- Authors
- Calabria, M., Costa, A., Green, D. W., & Abutalebi, J.
- Affiliations
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- University College London (GB)
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Costa, Albert
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-06-19
- Volume
- 1426
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 221-235
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- OpenAlex
- W2809351764
- Cited by
- 190
- References
- 150
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 5
- FWCI
- 2.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca - Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (submittedVersion)
- Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (submittedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Keywords
- bilingual language control, second language acquisition, language transfer, language choice, executive function, conflict monitoring, interference suppression, response inhibition, goal maintenance, bilingualism, brain damage
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