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Garbin, G.; Costa, A.; Sanjuan, A.; Forn, C.; Rodriguez-Pujadas, A.; Ventura, N.; Belloch, V.; Hernandez, M.; Avila, C. – Brain and Language, 2011
The left inferior frontal cortex, the caudate and the anterior cingulate have been proposed as the neural origin of language switching, but most of the studies were conducted in low proficient bilinguals. In the present study, we investigated brain areas involved in language switching in a sample of 19 early, high-proficient Spanish-Catalan…
Descriptors: Neurology, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Spanish, Bilingualism
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Kho, Kuan H.; Duffau, Hugues; Gatignol, Peggy; Leijten, Frans S. S.; Ramsey, Nick F.; van Rijen, Peter C.; Rutten, Geert-Jan M. – Brain and Language, 2007
We present two bilingual patients without language disorders in whom involuntary language switching was induced. The first patient switched from Dutch to English during a left-sided amobarbital (Wada) test. Functional magnetic resonance imaging yielded a predominantly left-sided language distribution similar for both languages. The second patient…
Descriptors: Patients, Stimulation, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)