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Ileana Quiñones1,2, Sandra Gisbert-Muñoz3,4, Garazi Bermudez5,6
1Biogipuzkoa Health Research Institute, San Sebastian, Spain. ILIANA.QUINONESGONZALEZ@bio-gipuzkoa.eus.
Abstract:
Are an individual's first (L1) and second (L2) languages represented in shared or distinct brain territories? Using intraoperative electrical stimulation mapping (ESM) in two Basque-Spanish bilinguals with non-growing lesions-thus avoiding confounding effects of adaptive plasticity-this study identified distinct language representations within the left temporal lobe. Stimulation of posterior and anterior superior temporal gyri induced language-selective aphasias, whereas stimulation of the mid-temporal region and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus produced naming errors without language specificity. These findings highlight both shared and distinct loci for L1 and L2, advancing our understanding of bilingual brain organization.
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