Language control mechanisms differ for native languages: Neuromagnetic evidence from trilingual language switching
| Autor: | Jyrki P. Mäkelä, Suzanne C.A. Hut, Päivi Helenius, Minna Lehtonen, Alina Leminen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Speech production Speech perception Adolescent Cognitive Neuroscience Inferior frontal gyrus Multilingualism Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests 050105 experimental psychology N400m Executive Function Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Humans Learning 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Control (linguistics) Evoked Potentials Language switching Analysis of Variance Auditory speech perception 05 social sciences Brain Magnetoencephalography Linguistics Age of Acquisition Language transfer Language control Word recognition Speech Perception Female Psychology Trilingualism 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Hut, S C A, Helenius, P, Leminen, A, Mäkelä, J P & Lehtonen, M 2017, ' Language control mechanisms differ for native languages : Neuromagnetic evidence from trilingual language switching ', Neuropsychologia, vol. 107, pp. 108-120 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.016 |
| ISSN: | 0028-3932 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.016 |
| Popis: | How does the brain process and control languages that are learned at a different age, when proficiency in all these languages is high? Early acquired strong languages are likely to have higher baseline activation levels than later learned less-dominant languages. However, it is still largely unknown how the activation levels of these different languages are controlled, and how interference from an irrelevant language is prevented. In this magnetoencephalography (MEG) study on language switching during auditory perception, early Finnish-Swedish bilinguals (N = 18) who mastered English with high proficiency after childhood were presented with spoken words in each of the three languages, while performing a simple semantic categorisation task. Switches from the later learned English to either of the native languages resulted in increased neural activation in the superior temporal gyrus (STG) 400–600 ms after word onset (N400m response), whereas such increase was not detected for switches from native languages to English or between the native languages. In an earlier time window of 350–450 ms, English non-switch trials showed higher activation levels in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), pointing to ongoing inhibition of the native languages during the use of English. Taken together, these asymmetric switch costs suggest that native languages are suppressed during the use of a non-native language, despite the receptive nature of the language task. This effect seems to be driven mostly by age of acquisition or language exposure, rather than proficiency. Our results indicate that mechanisms of control between two native languages differ from those of a later learned language, as upbringing in an early bilingual environment has likely promoted automatiation of language control specifically for the native languages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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