Neural deficits in second language reading: fMRI evidence from Chinese children with English reading impairment

H You, N Gaab, N Wei, A Cheng-Lai, Z Wang, J Jian… - NeuroImage, 2011 - Elsevier
… In alphabetic language systems, converging evidence indicates that developmental … deficit
of impaired English reading in individuals with English as their second language and how it is …

Tracking second language immersion across time: Evidence from a bi-directional longitudinal cross-linguistic fMRI study

H Brice, SJ Frost, AS Bick, PJ Molfese, JG Rueckl… - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
… of second language literacy, however, is that it cannot fully distinguish between inherent
differences in processing specific languages (eg… a given language was acquired first or second. …

Brain strategies for reading in the second language are determined by the first language

T Nakada, Y Fujii, IL Kwee - Neuroscience Research, 2001 - Elsevier
Evidence has now been accumulated indicating that brain activation patterns associated …
fMRI images associated with reading Japanese and English in ten subjects (five Japanese …

Japanese and English sentence reading comprehension and writing systems: An fMRI study of first and second language effects on brain activation

A Buchweitz, RA Mason, M Hasegawa… - Bilingualism: Language …, 2009 - cambridge.org
readers of English as a second language allows for a unique three-faceted comparison of
reading … It was expected that the results of the present study would provide evidence of an …

fMRI evidence for the involvement of the procedural memory system in morphological processing of a second language

C Pliatsikas, T Johnstone, T Marinis - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… This is not surprising: behavioural [13] and ERP [15] evidence have suggested native-like …
second language learners. Our study confirms this by providing further evidence from fMRI

Neural basis of phonological processing in second language reading: An fMRI study of Chinese regularity effect

J Zhao, QL Li, JJ Wang, Y Yang, Y Deng, HY Bi - NeuroImage, 2012 - Elsevier
… pattern when native English speakers learned to read Chinese. However, these studies
were based on short-term training, more evidence is needed to examine the effects of …

Cross-linguistic influence on brain activation during second language processing: An fMRI study

H Jeong, M Sugiura, Y Sassa, S Yokoyama… - … : Language and …, 2007 - cambridge.org
… the linguistic distance between a first language (L1) and a second language (L2) on neural
activity during second language relative to first language processing. We compared different …

Activity levels in the left hemisphere caudate–fusiform circuit predict how well a second language will be learned

LH Tan, L Chen, V Yip, AHD Chan… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
… Here, by using functional MRI, we show that later skills to read in … of the ability to read in the
native language. We scanned 10-y-old … Considerable evidence links the central mechanisms …

Processing lexical semantic and syntactic information in first and second language: fMRI evidence from German and Russian

SA Rüschemeyer, CJ Fiebach, V Kempe… - Human brain …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… The Russian native speakers investigated in this study were second-language learners of
German, and had been living in Germany for an average of 7 years. No participant had any …

Can Harry Potter still put a spell on us in a second language? An fMRI study on reading emotion-laden literature in late bilinguals

CT Hsu, AM Jacobs, M Conrad - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
fMRI study we contrasted emotional responses to literary reading in late bilinguals' first or
second language… proficiency in their second language (L2) English read short text passages …