Bilingual and Monolingual Brains Compared
This article is a stepping stone to my first, providing detailed information on the methods and results of the study and laying the foundation for the results and conclusion my first article presented. They focused entirely on the Left Inferior Frontal Cortex (LIFC) and were able to conclude, using fMRI's, that while both monolingual and bilingual subjects had the same speed and accuracy in English bilingual subjects had a substantial increase in blood flow to the LIFC when processing English than monolingual brains. This supports the findings that while monolingual and bilingual brains process language in the same area, bilingual brains are wired to do more work at the same speed and accuracy as their monolingual counterparts.
Great findings! I have always been curious about this subject. Did you have a hypothesis about what you would find? Were there any other neat facts that you learned while researching this? During my research I have to be careful not to stray and look at interesting, but irrelevant articles. :)
ReplyDeleteFrom the basic knowledge I gained in Intro to Psychology I figured that there would be some differences in brain structure between the two. Though I was expecting the processing to take place in the same area primarily because of the age of learning the language (<five years old). Unfortunately I didn't run into any neat facts that pertained to my question but I did run into a bunch of articles that grabbed my attention. Mainly stuff on P.T.S.D. and trauma.
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