Cognitive control of language production in bilinguals involves a partly independent process within the domain-general cognitive control network: Evidence from task-switching and electrical brain activity

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-63

  Magezi, David A ^a   Khateb, Asaid ^b,c   Mouthon, Michael ^a,b   Spierer, Lucas ^a   Annoni, Jean Marie ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); First language; Overt naming; Second language; Source localisation; Task selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BILINGUAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84861983871     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Abutalebi J., Annoni J.M., Zimine I., Pegna A.J., Seghier M.L., Hannelore L.J., et al. Language control and lexical competition in bilinguals: An event-related fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex 2008, 18:1496-1505.
2. Abutalebi J., Della Rosa P.A., Green D.W., Hernández M., Scifo P., et al. Bilingualism tunes the anterior cingulate cortex for conflict monitoring. Cerebral Cortex 2011, 10.1093/cercor/bhr287.
3. Abutalebi J., Della Rosa P.A., Tettamanti M., Green D.W., Cappa S.F. Bilingual aphasia and language control: A follow-up fMRI and intrinsic connectivity study. Brain and Language 2011, 109:141-156.
4. Abutalebi J., Green D. Control mechanisms in bilingual language production: Neural evidence from language switching studies. Language and Cognitive Processes 2008, 23:557-582.
5. Abutalebi J., Miozzo A., Cappa S.F. Do subcortical structures control language selection in bilinguals? Evidence from pathological language mixing. Neurocase 2000, 6:101-106.
6. Aglioti S., Fabbro F. Paradoxical selective recovery in a bilingual aphasic following subcortical lesion. Neuroreport 1993, 4:1359-1362.
7. Alario F.X., Ferrand L. A set of 400 pictures standardized for French: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, visual complexity, image variability, and age of acquisition. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 1999, 31:531-552.
8. Brunet D., Murray M., Michel C.M. Spatiotemporal analysis of multichannel EEG: CARTOOL. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2011, 10.1155/2011/813870.
9. Calabria M., Hernández M., Branzi F.M., Costa A. Qualitative differences between bilingual language control and executive control: Evidence from task-switching. Frontiers in Psychology 2012, 103389/psyg.2011.00399.
10. Christoffels I.K., Firk C., Schiller N.O. Bilingual language control: An event-related brain potential study. Brain Research 2007, 1147:192-208.
11. Costa A., Santesteban M. Lexical access in bilingual speech production: Evidence from language switching in highly proficient bilinguals and L2 learners. Journal of Memory and Language 2004, 50:491-511.
12. Costa A., Santesteban M., Ivanova I. How do highly proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process? Inhibitory and language-specific selection mechanisms are both functional. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 2006, 32:1057-1074.
13. Delorme A., Makeig S. EEGLAB: An open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2004, 134:9-21.
14. Diamond J. The benefits of multilingualism. Science 2010, 330:332-333.
15. Donkers F.C., Van Boxtel G.J. The N2 in go/no-go tasks reflects conflict monitoring and not response inhibition. Brain and Cognition 2004, 56:165-176.
16. Dove A., Pollmann S., Schubert T., Wiggins C.J., von Cramon D.Y. Prefrontal cortex activation in task switching: An event-related fMRI study. Cognitive Brain Research 2000, 9:103-109.
17. Grave de Peralta R., Gonzalez Andino S., Gomez Gonzalez C.M. The biophysical foundations of the localisation of encephalogram generators in the brain. The application of a distribution type of model to the localisation of epileptic foci. Revista de Neurologia 2004, 39:748-756.
18. Grave de Peralta R., Gonzalez Andino S., Lantz G., Michel C.M., Landis T. Noninvasive localization of electromagnetic epileptic activity. I. Method descriptions and simulations. Brain Topography 2001, 14:131-137.
19. Green D.W. Mental control of the bilingual lexico-semantic system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1998, 4:169-178.
20. Green D.W. Language control in different contexts: The behavioural ecology of bilingual speakers. Frontiers in psychology 2011, 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00103.
21. Grosjean F. Studying bilinguals: Methodological and conceptual issues. Bilingualism Language and Cognition 1998, 1:131-141.
22. Grosjean F. The bilingual's language modes. One mind, two languages: Bilingual sentence processing 2001, 1-22. Blackwell, Oxford. L. Janet (Ed.).
23. Hernandez A.E., Dapretto M., Mazziotta J., Bookheimer S. Language switching and language representation in Spanish-English bilinguals: An fMRI study. NeuroImage 2001, 14:510-520.
24. Hervais-Adelman A.G., Moser-Mercer B., Golestani N. Executive control of language in the bilingual brain: Integrating the evidence from neuroimaging to neuropsychology. Frontiers in Psychology 2011, 2. 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00234.
25. Jackson G.M., Swainson R., Mullin A., Cunnington R., Jackson S.R. ERP correlates of executive control during repeated language switching. Bilingualism Language and Cognition 2001, 4:169-178.
26. Jackson G.M., Swainson R., Mullin A., Cunnington R., Jackson S.R. ERP correlates of a receptive language-switching task. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A: Human experimental psychology 2004, 57:223-240.
27. Jodo E., Kayama Y. Relation of a negative ERP component to response inhibition in a Go/No-go task. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1992, 82:477-482.
28. Khateb A., Abutalebi J., Michel C.M., Pegna A.J., Lee-Jahnke H., Annoni J.M. Language selection in bilinguals: A spatio-temporal analysis of electrical brain activity. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2007, 65:201-213.
29. Kho K.H., Duffau H., Gatignon P., Leijten F.S.S., Ramsey N.F., van Rijen P.C., et al. Involuntary language switching in two bilingual patients during the Wada test and intraoperative electrocortical stimulation. Brain and Language 2007, 101:31-37.
30. Kimberg D.Y., Aguirre G.K., D'Esposito M. Modulation of task-related neural activity in task-switching: An fMRI study. Cognitive Brain Research 2000, 10:189-196.
31. Levelt W.J., Praamstra P., Meyer A.S., Helenius P., Salmelin R. An MEG study of picture naming. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1998, 10:553-567.
32. Luk G., Green D.W., Abutalebi J., Grady C. Cognitive control for language switching in bilinguals: A quantitative meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Language and Cognitive Processes 2011, 10.1080/01690965.2011.613209.
33. Metz-Lutz M.N., Kremin H., Deloche G., Hannequin D., Ferrand I., Perrier D., et al. Standardisation d'un test de dénomination orale: Contrôle des effets de l'âge, du sexe et du niveau de scolarité chez des sujets adultes normaux (Standardization of an oral naming test controlling the effects of age, gender and education level in normal adult subjects). Revue de Neuropsychologie 1991, 1:73-95.
34. Meuter R.F.I., Allport A. Bilingual language switching in naming: Asymmetrical costs of language selection. Journal of Memory and Language 1999, 40:25-40.
35. Michel C.M., Koenig T., Brandeis D. Electrical neuroimaging in the time domain. Electrical neuroimaging 2009, 111-144. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. C.M. Michel, T. Koenig, D. Brandeis, L.R.R. Giannotti, J. Wackermann (Eds.).
36. Moritz-Gasser S., Duffau H. Cognitive processes and neural basis of language switching: Proposal of a new model. NeuroReport 2009, 20:1577-1580.
37. Nieuwenhuis S., Yeung N., Van den Wildenberg W., Ridderinkhof K.R. Electrophysiological correlates of anterior cingulate function in a go/no go task: Effects of response conflict and trial type frequency. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience 2003, 3:17-26.
38. Oldfield R.C. The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 1971, 9:97-113.
39. Price C.J., Green D.W., Von Sutdnitz R. A functional imaging study of translation and language switching. Brain 1999, 122:2221-2235.
40. Rogers R., Monsell S. Costs of a predictable switch between simple cognitive tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1995, 124:207-231.
41. Thorpe S., Fize D., Marlot C. Speed of processing in the human visual system. Nature 1996, 381:520-522.
42. Verhoef K., Roelofs A., Chwilla D.J. Role of inhibition in language switching: Evidence from event-related potentials in overt picture naming. Cognition 2009, 110:84-99.
43. Wang Y., Kuhl P.K., Chen C., Dong Q. Sustained and transient language control in the bilingual brain. NeuroImage 2009, 47:414-422.
44. Wartenburger I., Heekeren H.R., Abutalebi J., Cappa S., Villringer A., Perani D. Early setting of grammatical processing in the bilingual brain. Neuron 2003, 37:159-170.
45. Ye Z., Zhou X. Executive control in language processing. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2009, 33:1168-1177.