Brain imaging of language plasticity in adopted adults: can a second language replace the first?

By Christophe Pallier, Stanislas Dehaene, J B Poline, D. LeBihan, Emmanuel Dupoux. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Reversibility of the Other-Race Effect in Face Recognition During Childhood (2005, background): “These analyses showed that the French and adoptees performed significantly better on Caucasian faces than on Asian faces, whereas the Koreans showed the reverse pattern (this last effect beingmarginally significant), t(11)5 4.3, p5 .06.”
Cultural recycling of cortical maps. (2007, positive): “…listening to stimuli in the subject’s first language activates a highly reproducible array of regions along the superior temporal sulcus and with a significant left lateralization (Binder et al., 2000; Dehaene et al., 1997; Humphries et al., 2006; Mazoyer et al., 1993; Pallier et al., 2003).”
Dominance and Age in Bilingualism. (2014, background): “At the same time, Pallier’s work on complete L1 attrition (Pallier et al. 2003), along with studies by Ammerlaan (1996) and Pelc (2001), lead him to posit that age effects in L1 attrition are nonlinear.”
Age of acquisition: its neural and computational mechanisms. (2007, background): “The research shows no neural or behavioral trace of L1 even when L2 immersion occurs as late as age 8 years (Pallier et al., 2003; Ventureyra, Pallier, & Yoo, 2004).”
Nativelikeness and non-nativelikeness in L2A research (2005, background): “Also, separating age effects from effects of the L1 that becomes increasingly entrenched over time (in representational terms and in terms of routine use), though imaginable in principle, proves difficult in practice (see, however, Pallier et al. 2003).”
Connectionist Models in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience : Critical Periods and the Paradox of Success (2005, background): “Pallier et al. (2003) studied adults who were born in Korea but adopted by French families in childhood (between the ages of 3 and 8 years old).”
Speech perception as a window for understanding plasticity and commitment in language systems of the brain. (2005, background): “Indeed, as cited earlier (Pallier et al., 2003), Koreanspeaking children who were adopted into French-speaking homes and subsequently not again exposed to Korean performed like French speakers on perception of Korean phonetic contrasts (Ventureyra et al.”
Computational Evidence That Frequency Trajectory Theory Does Not Oppose But Emerges From Age-of-Acquisition Theory (2012, neutral): “Pallier et al. (2003) attempted to reveal native language traces in eight adult Koreans who had been adopted during childhood (between 3 and 8 years of age) by French families.”
Age and Second Language Acquisition and Processing: A Selective Overview (2006, background): “To take the discussion of L2 dominance to a logical extreme, consider the case of the adoptees studied by Pallier et al. (2003).”
Neurolinguistic aspects of attrition (2004, background): “In the few studies in which the onset of attrition coincides with a total break in L1 use, i.e. studies dealing with adopted children, attrition is indeed very fast and, apparently definitive (Isurin, 2000; Nicoladis & Grabois, 2002; Pallier et al., 2003; Ventureyra et al., this issue).”
The loss of first language phonetic perception in adopted Koreans (2004, background): “In sum, the evidence of extensive attrition obtained in phonetic perception in this study corroborate the results obtained by Pallier et al. (2003) in brain imaging and by Ventureyra & Pallier (in press) with respect to number series recognition.”
SupportNet: solving catastrophic forgetting in class incremental learning with support data (2018, background): “According to (Sirois et al. , 2008; Pallier et al. , 2003), even human beings, who are proﬁcient in incremental learning, could not deal with catastrophic forgetting perfectly.”
Dominant-language replacement: The case of international adoptees* (2009, background): “…left implicit unconscious traces at the level of microcircuity of the language processing areas that our behavioural and fMRI methods did not detect” (Pallier et al., 2003, p. 159); “Though we have informally observed that the adopted Koreans have a very good command of French, subsequent…”