TY - JOUR
T1 - Semantic processing in Spanish-English bilinguals with aphasia
AU - Sebastian, Rajani
AU - Kiran, Swathi
AU - Sandberg, Chaleece
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by a grant from the Imaging Research Center, University of Texas at Austin . The authors acknowledge the staff at the Imaging Research Center for support during data collection and analysis. The authors also thank the participants in the experiment for their patience and cooperation.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - The present study was aimed at examining the effect of current language use/exposure on the neural representation of languages in Spanish-English stroke participants with aphasia using a semantic judgment task. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed on three participants with aphasia and three normal controls who had demonstrated a shift toward dominance in their second language (English). The behavioral and imaging results indicate that all participants processed their non-dominant native language (Spanish) differently compared to their dominant second language (English). Specifically, increased activation was observed in the left frontal cortex and anterior cingulate gyrus during the weaker native language processing. Further, in participants with aphasia, increased bilateral activation was observed during the weaker native language processing, indicating that decreased language usage/proficiency results in a distributed network of activation. The results of this study demonstrate that the neural substrates of language recovery in bilingual stroke patients are similar to regions engaged by normal bilinguals but include additional regions reflecting a compensatory network to subserve successful language processing.
AB - The present study was aimed at examining the effect of current language use/exposure on the neural representation of languages in Spanish-English stroke participants with aphasia using a semantic judgment task. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was performed on three participants with aphasia and three normal controls who had demonstrated a shift toward dominance in their second language (English). The behavioral and imaging results indicate that all participants processed their non-dominant native language (Spanish) differently compared to their dominant second language (English). Specifically, increased activation was observed in the left frontal cortex and anterior cingulate gyrus during the weaker native language processing. Further, in participants with aphasia, increased bilateral activation was observed during the weaker native language processing, indicating that decreased language usage/proficiency results in a distributed network of activation. The results of this study demonstrate that the neural substrates of language recovery in bilingual stroke patients are similar to regions engaged by normal bilinguals but include additional regions reflecting a compensatory network to subserve successful language processing.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2012.01.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2012.01.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858452168
SN - 0911-6044
VL - 25
SP - 240
EP - 262
JO - Journal of Neurolinguistics
JF - Journal of Neurolinguistics
IS - 4
ER -