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Article: Executive and language control in the multilingual brain

TitleExecutive and language control in the multilingual brain
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Issue Date2014
PublisherHindawi Publishing Corporation. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bn
Citation
Behavioural Neurology, 2014, v. 2014, article no. 527951 How to Cite?
AbstractNeuroimaging studies suggest that the neural network involved in language control may not be specific to bi-/multilingualism but is part of a domain-general executive control system. We report a trilingual case of a Cantonese (L1), English (L2), and Mandarin (L3) speaker, Dr. T, who sustained a brain injury at the age of 77 causing lesions in the left frontal lobe and in the left temporo-parietal areas resulting in fluent aphasia. Dr. T’s executive functions were impaired according to a modified version of the Stroop color-word test and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance was characterized by frequent perseveration errors. Dr. T demonstrated pathological language switching and mixing across her three languages. Code switching in Cantonese was more prominent in discourse production than confrontation naming. Our case suggests that voluntary control of spoken word production in trilingual speakers shares neural substrata in the frontobasal ganglia system with domain-general executive control mechanisms. One prediction is that lesions to such a system would give rise to both pathological switching and impairments of executive functions in trilingual speakers.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/183824
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dc.contributor.authorKong, APH-
dc.contributor.authorAbutalebi, J-
dc.contributor.authorLam, KSY-
dc.contributor.authorWeekes, B-
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-18T04:18:28Z-
dc.date.available2013-06-18T04:18:28Z-
dc.date.issued2014-
dc.identifier.citationBehavioural Neurology, 2014, v. 2014, article no. 527951-
dc.identifier.issn0953-4180-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/183824-
dc.description.abstractNeuroimaging studies suggest that the neural network involved in language control may not be specific to bi-/multilingualism but is part of a domain-general executive control system. We report a trilingual case of a Cantonese (L1), English (L2), and Mandarin (L3) speaker, Dr. T, who sustained a brain injury at the age of 77 causing lesions in the left frontal lobe and in the left temporo-parietal areas resulting in fluent aphasia. Dr. T’s executive functions were impaired according to a modified version of the Stroop color-word test and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance was characterized by frequent perseveration errors. Dr. T demonstrated pathological language switching and mixing across her three languages. Code switching in Cantonese was more prominent in discourse production than confrontation naming. Our case suggests that voluntary control of spoken word production in trilingual speakers shares neural substrata in the frontobasal ganglia system with domain-general executive control mechanisms. One prediction is that lesions to such a system would give rise to both pathological switching and impairments of executive functions in trilingual speakers.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherHindawi Publishing Corporation. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bn-
dc.relation.ispartofBehavioural Neurology-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.titleExecutive and language control in the multilingual brain-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailKong, APH: antkong@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailWeekes, B: weekes@hku.hk-
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dc.identifier.authorityWeekes, B=rp01390-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1155/2014/527951-
dc.identifier.pmid24868121-
dc.identifier.pmcidPMC4020527-
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dc.identifier.hkuros214969-
dc.identifier.volume2014-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 527951-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 527951-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000335701900001-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-

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