The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children's
cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging …

Speaking more than one language demands a language control system that allows
bilinguals to correctly use the intended language adjusting for possible interference from the …

Speech comprehension and production are governed by control processes. We explore
their nature and dynamics in bilingual speakers with a focus on speech production. Prior …

The brain has an extraordinary ability to functionally and physically change or reconfigure its
structure in response to environmental stimulus, cognitive demand, or behavioral …

The ability to speak two languages often marvels monolinguals, although bilinguals report
no difficulties in achieving this feat. Here, we examine how learning and using two …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Code-switching (CS) is central to many bilingual communities and, though linguistic and
sociolinguistic research has characterised different types of code-switches (alternations …

Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions.
Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged …

Acquiring and speaking a second language increases demand on the processes of
language control for bilingual as compared to monolingual speakers. Language control for …