Title :
Phonological processing in Chinese-English bilingual biscriptals: an FMRI study
Author :
Tham, Wendy W P ; Liow, Susan J Rickard ; Leong, Tan Choong ; Rajapakse, Jagath C. ; Ng, Samuel E S ; Lim, Winston E H ; Ho, Lynn G.
Author_Institution :
BioInformatics Res. Centre, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
The advent of modern neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provided an impetus for investigating language representation in the healthy bilingual brain. To date, neuroimaging experiments involving English-Chinese bilinguals suggest that common brain areas subserve the two languages. Given that the oral and written forms of English and Mandarin differ so markedly, and differences have been reported for bi-alphabetic readers, the findings for English-Chinese bilinguals warrant further investigation. In this paper, the language representation of skilled English-Chinese bilingual biscriptals was investigated at the phonological level, using both equivalent behavioural (N = 28) and fMRI (n = 6) experiments. Differences in neural activation patterns between English and Mandarin will be discussed.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; brain; neurophysiology; Chinese-English bilingual biscriptals; Mandarin; functional magnetic resonance imaging; healthy bilingual brain; language representation; modern neuroimaging techniques; neural activation patterns; phonological processing; Automatic testing; Batteries; Bioinformatics; History; Hospitals; Magnetic resonance imaging; Natural languages; Neuroimaging; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2004 IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8665-5
DOI :
10.1109/BIOCAS.2004.1454095