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Area of Science:

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  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Bilingualism induces brain structural and functional changes.
  • Previous research has not directly linked structural and functional brain connectivity during bilingual language control.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between structural and functional brain connectivity during bilingual language control.
  • To determine if connectivity is associated with behavioral performance in language control.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized behavioral, functional, and diffusion imaging techniques.
  • Analyzed brain activation in regions including the left dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC)/pre-SMA.
  • Modeled effective connectivity using regions of interest (ROIs) like dlPFC, dACC/pre-SMA, and left caudate nucleus (CN).

Main Results:

  • Significant brain activation observed in dlPFC, CN, inferior parietal lobe, precuneus, and dACC/pre-SMA during language control.
  • A specific effective connectivity pathway was identified: dACC/pre-SMA to left CN, with bidirectional connectivity between left CN and dlPFC.
  • Found a nonlinear relationship between effective connectivity and structural connectivity, with fiber density between dACC/pre-SMA and dlPFC positively influencing connectivity between dlPFC and CN.

Conclusions:

  • Provides evidence for functional effective connectivity patterns in bilingual language control.
  • Contributes to understanding structural connectivity in second language learners' brains.
  • Highlights nonlinear associations between functional connectivity, structural connectivity, and behavioral performance in bilinguals.