Growth of language-related brain areas after foreign language learning

By Johan Mårtensson, Johan Gunnar Eriksson, Nils Christian Bodammer, Magnus Lindgren, Mikael Johansson, Lars Nyberg, Martin Lövdén. NeuroImage, 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Understanding structural plasticity in the bilingual brain: The Dynamic Restructuring Model (2019, background): “…well as connectivity between frontal, temporal and subcortical regions and the cerebellum, compared to multilinguals (Hervais-Adelman, Moser-Mercer, Murray & Golestani, 2017; Van de Putte, De Baene, García-Pentón, Woumans, Dijkgraaf & Duyck, 2018) and monolingual controls (Mårtensson et al., 2012).”
The Bilingual Adaptation: How Minds Accommodate Experience (2017, background): “In a prepost study of adults undergoing intense foreign language learning to become interpreters, Mårtensson et al. (2012) reported increases in hippocampal volume and cortical thickness of the LIPG (as well as in the left middle frontal gyrus and superior temporal gyrus) with no changes in area…”
Understanding bilingual brain function and structure changes? U bet! A unified bilingual experience trajectory model (2020, background): “…& Pliatsikas, 2018; Grant; Fang, & Li, 2015; Hervais-Adelman, Moser-Mercer, & Golestani, 2015; Hofstetter, Friedmann, & Assaf, 2016; Hosoda, Tanaka, Nariai, Honda, & Hanakawa, 2013; Legault, Fang, Lan, & Li, 2019; Mårtensson et al., 2012; Mohades et al., 2015; Schlegel, Rudelson, & Tse, 2012).”
Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging (2014, background): “Some studies have shown training-related transfer from L2 learning to executive control (Martensson et al., 2012); however, testing the question in this direction requires intense L2 learning situations and unusually motivated, self-selected learners who may already differ in cognitive control.”
The Advantages of Bilingualism Debate (2019, background): “Encouragingly, language-learning brain plasticity effects have been observed in young adults (Hosoda et al. 2013, Mårtensson et al. 2012, Schlegel et al. 2012, Stein et al. 2012); therefore, it seems possible that analogous plasticity effects could potentially be observed at other points…”