Bilingualism increases neural response consistency and attentional control: Evidence for sensory and cognitive coupling

Brain and Language

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-40

  Krizman, Jennifer ^a,b,c,e   Skoe, Erika ^a,c,e,f   Marian, Viorica ^b,c,e   Kraus, Nina ^a,c,d,e  

^a Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory   (United States)

^b Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Laboratory   (United States)

^c Department of Communication Sciences ^*  (United States)

^d Institute for Neuroscience   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Bilingualism; Brainstem; Electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MONOLINGUAL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

AUDITORY; BILINGUALISM; BRAINSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84892504417     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Altenberg E.P., Ferrand C.T. Fundamental frequency in monolingual English, bilingual English/Russian, and bilingual English/Cantonese young adult women. Journal of Voice 2006, 20(1):89-96.
2. Arieli A., Sterkin A., Grinvald A., Aertsen A. Dynamics of ongoing activity: Explanation of the large variability in evoked cortical responses. Science 1996, 273(5283):1868-1871.
3. Bar M., Kassam K.S., Ghuman A.S., Boshyan J., Schmid A.M., Dale A.M., et al. Top-down facilitation of visual recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006, 103(2):449-454.
4. Bartolotti J., Marian V. Language learning and control in monolinguals and bilinguals. Cognitive Science 2012, 36(6):1129-1147.
5. Bartolotti J., Marian V., Schroeder S.R., Shook A. Bilingualism and inhibitory control influence statistical learning of novel word forms. Frontiers in Psychology 2011, 2(324).
6. Berlin C.I., Morlet T., Hood L.J. Auditory neuropathy/dyssynchrony: Its diagnosis and management. Pediatric Clinics of North America 2003, 50(2):331-340.
7. Bialystok E. How does experience change cognition? Evaluating the evidence. British Journal of Psychology 2011, 102(3):303-305.
8. Blumenfeld H.K., Marian V. Bilingualism influences inhibitory control in auditory comprehension. Cognition 2011, 118(2):245-257.
9. Carlson S.M., Meltzoff A.N. Bilingual experience and executive functioning in young children. Developmental Science 2008, 11(2):282-298.
10. Centanni, T., Booker, A., Sloan, A., Chen, F., Maher, B., Carraway, R., et al. (2013). Knockdown of the dyslexia-associated gene Kiaa0319 impairs temporal responses to speech stimuli in rat primary auditory cortex. Cerebral Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bht028.
11. Chandrasekaran B., Kraus N. The scalp-recorded brainstem response to speech: Neural origins and plasticity. Psychophysiology 2010, 47:236-246.
12. Coch D., Sanders L.D., Neville H.J. An event-related potential study of selective auditory attention in children and adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2005, 17(4):605-622.
13. Conway C.M., Pisoni D.B., Kronenberger W.G. The importance of sound for cognitive sequencing abilities. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2009, 18(5):275-279.
14. 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(4):491-511.
15. D'Angiulli A., Herdman A., Stapells D., Hertzman C. Children's event-related potentials of auditory selective attention vary with their socioeconomic status. Neuropsychology 2008, 22(3):293-300.
16. Engel A.K., Fries P., Singer W. Dynamic predictions: Oscillations and synchrony in top-down processing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2001, 2(10):704-716.
17. Fritz J.B., Elhilali M., David S.V., Shamma S.A. Auditory attention - Focusing the searchlight on sound. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2007, 17(4):437-455.
18. Galbraith G.C., Arbagey P.W., Branski R., Comerci N., Rector P.M. Intelligible speech encoded in the human brain stem frequency-following response. NeuroReport 1995, 6(17):2363-2367.
19. Gao E., Suga N. Experience-dependent corticofugal adjustment of midbrain frequency map in bat auditory system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1998, 95(21):12663-12670.
20. Gao E., Suga N. Experience-dependent plasticity in the auditory cortex and the inferior colliculus of bats: Role of the corticofugal system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2000, 97(14):8081-8086.
21. Hackman D.A., Farah M.J., Meaney M.J. Socioeconomic status and the brain: Mechanistic insights from human and animal research. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2010, 11(9):651-659.
22. Hairston W.D., Letowski T.R., McDowell K. Task-related suppression of the brainstem frequency following response. PLoS One 2013, 8(2):e55215.
23. Hall J.W. New handbook of auditory evoked responses 2006, Pearson, Boston Mass.
24. Hebb D.O The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory 2002, Psychology Press.
25. Hermans D., Bongaerts T., De Bot K., Schreuder R. Producing words in a foreign language: Can speakers prevent interference from their first language?. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1998, 1(03):213-229.
26. Hochstein S., Ahissar M. View from the top-hierarchies and reverse hierarchies in the visual system. Neuron 2002, 36(5):791-804.
27. Hollingshead A. Four factor index of social status 1975, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
28. Hornickel J., Kraus N. Unstable representation of sound: A biological marker of dyslexia. The Journal of Neuroscience 2013, 33(8):3500-3504.
29. Hornickel J., Zecker S.G., Bradlow A.R., Kraus N. Assistive listening devices drive neuroplasticity in children with dyslexia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012, 109(41):16731-16736.
30. Huffman R.F., Henson O. The descending auditory pathway and acousticomotor systems: connections with the inferior colliculus. Brain Research Reviews 1990, 15(3):295-323.
31. Klatt D. Software for cascade/parallel formant synthesizer. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1980, 67:971-975.
32. Kraus N., Chandrasekaran B. Music training for the development of auditory skills. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2010, 11(8):599-605.
33. Krishnan A., Swaminathan J., Gandour J.T. Experience-dependent enhancement of linguistic pitch representation in the brainstem is not specific to a speech context. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2009, 21(6):1092-1105.
34. Krizman J., Marian V., Shook A., Skoe E., Kraus N. Subcortical encoding of sound is enhanced in bilinguals and relates to executive function advantages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012, 109(20):7877-7881.
35. Kroll J.F., Bobb S.C., Misra M., Guo T. Language selection in bilingual speech: evidence for inhibitory processes. Acta Psychologica 2008, 128:416-430.
36. Kuipers J.R., Thierry G. Event-related brain potentials reveal the time-course of language change detection in early bilinguals. NeuroImage 2010, 50(4):1633-1638.
37. Liu L.F., Palmer A.R., Wallace M.N. Phase-locked responses to pure tones in the inferior colliculus. Journal of Neurophysiology 2006, 95:1926-1935.
38. Luo F., Wang Q., Kashani A., Yan J. Corticofugal modulation of initial sound processing in the brain. The Journal of Neuroscience 2008, 28(45):11615-11621.
39. Lutz A., Slagter H.A., Dunne J.D., Davidson R.J. Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Trends in cognitive sciences 2008, 12(4):163-169.
40. Malmierca, M. S., & Ryugo, D. K. (2011). Descending connections of auditory cortex to the midbrain and brain stem. In The auditory cortex (pp. 189-208): Springer.
41. Marian V., Blumenfeld H.K., Kaushanskaya M. The language experience and proficiency questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing language profiles in bilinguals and multilinguals. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2007, 50(4):940.
42. Marian V., Kaushanskaya M. The bilingual advantage in novel word learning. Psychonomic Review Bulletin 2009, 16(4):705-710.
43. Marian V., Spivey M. Bilingual and monolingual processing of competing lexical items. Applied Psycholinguistics 2003, 24(02):173-193.
44. McLachlan N., Wilson S. The central role of recognition in auditory perception: A neurobiological model. Psychological Review 2010, 117(1):175.
45. Miller E.K., Cohen J.D. An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Neuroscience 2001, 24(1):167.
46. Musacchia G., Sams M., Skoe E., Kraus N. Musicians have enhanced subcortical auditory and audiovisual processing of speech and music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007, 104(40):15894-15898.
47. Näätänen R. The role of attention in auditory information processing as revealed by event-related potentials and other brain measures of cognitive function. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1990, 13(2):201-233.
48. Parbery-Clark A., Anderson S., Hittner E., Kraus N. Musical experience offsets age-related delays in neural timing. Neurobiology of Aging 2012, 33(7). 1483. e1481.
49. Raizada R.D., Poldrack R.A. Challenge-driven attention: Interacting frontal and brainstem systems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2007, 1.
50. Rinne T., Balk M.H., Koistinen S., Autti T., Alho K., Sams M. Auditory selective attention modulates activation of human inferior colliculus. Journal of Neurophysiology 2008, 100(6):3323-3327.
51. Ruggles D., Bharadwaj H., Shinn-Cunningham B.G. Normal hearing is not enough to guarantee robust encoding of suprathreshold features important in everyday communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2011, 108(37):15516-15521.
52. Shadlen M.N., Newsome W.T. The variable discharge of cortical neurons: Implications for connectivity, computation, and information coding. The Journal of Neuroscience 1998, 18(10):3870-3896.
53. Skoe E., Kraus N. Auditory brain stem response to complex sounds: A tutorial. Ear and Hearing 2010, 31(3):302-324.
54. Skoe E., Kraus N. Musical training heightens auditory brainstem function during sensitive periods in development. Frontiers in Psychology 2013, 4:622.
55. Skoe E., Krizman J., Kraus N. The impoverished brain: Disparities in maternal education affect the neural response to sound. Journal of Neuroscience 2013, 33(44):17221-17231.
56. Smith E.E., Jonides J. Storage and executive processes in the frontal lobes. Science 1999, 283:1657-1661.
57. Soveri A., Laine M., Hamalainen H., Hugdahl K. Bilingual advantage in attentional control: Evidence from the forced-attention dichotic listening paradigm. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2011, 14:371-378.
58. Sowell E.R., Thompson P.M., Holmes C.J., Jernigan T.L., Toga A.W. In vivo evidence for postadolescent brain maturation in frontal and striatal regions. Nature Neuroscience 1999, 2:859-860.
59. Spear L.P. Neurobehavioral changes in adolescence. Current Directions in Psychological Science 2000, 9(4):111-114.
60. Spivey M., Marian V. Cross talk between native and second languages: Partial activation of an irrelevant lexicon. Psychological Science 1999, 10(3):281-284.
61. Treccani B., Argyri E., Sorace A., Della Sala S. Spatial negative priming in bilingualism. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2009, 16(2):320-327.
62. Van Heuven W.J., Schriefers H., Dijkstra T., Hagoort P. Language conflict in the bilingual brain. Cerebral Cortex 2008, 18(11):2706-2716.
63. Wechsler D. Wechsler abbreviated scale of intelligence (WASI) 1999, Harcourt Assessment, San Antonio, TX.
64. Weissman D.H., Roberts K.C., Visscher K.M., Woldorff M.G. The neural bases of momentary lapses in attention. Nature Neuroscience 2006, 9(7):971-978.
65. Winer J.A. Decoding the auditory corticofugal systems. Hearing Research 2006, 212(1):1-8.
66. Woldorff M.G., Gallen C.C., Hampson S.A., Hillyard S.A., Pantev C., Sobel D., et al. Modulation of early sensory processing in human auditory cortex during auditory selective attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1993, 90(18):8722-8726.
67. Wu C., Weissman D., Roberts K., Woldorff M. The neural circuitry underlying the executive control of auditory spatial attention. Brain Research 2007, 1134(1):187.