123 results on '"Abutalebi, J"'
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2. Neurocognitive mechanisms of emotional interference processing in bilinguals: Evidence from the emotional Stroop task
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Gentile, M, Del Maschio, N, Bellini, C, Del Mauro, G, Sulpizio, S, Abutalebi, J, Gentile, M, Del Maschio, N, Bellini, C, Del Mauro, G, Sulpizio, S, and Abutalebi, J
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fMRI ,bilingualism ,emotional Stroop - Published
- 2022
3. Neurocognitive mechanisms of affective conflict adaptation in bilinguals: Evidence from the emotional Stroop task
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Del Maschio, N, Sulpizio, S, Bellini, C, Del Mauro, G, Abutalebi, J, Del Maschio, N, Sulpizio, S, Bellini, C, Del Mauro, G, and Abutalebi, J
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emotional stroop ,fMRI ,bilingualism - Published
- 2022
4. Language you speak, decision you make: how the foreign language affects moral judgements
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Bellini, C, Del Maschio, N, Del Mauro, G, Abutalebi, J, Sulpizio, S, Bellini, C, Del Maschio, N, Del Mauro, G, Abutalebi, J, and Sulpizio, S
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foreign language effect, bilingualism, decision making - Published
- 2022
5. Generating Animal and Tool Names: An fMRI Study of Effective Connectivity
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Vitali, P., Abutalebi, J., and Tettamanti, M.
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The present fMRI study of semantic fluency for animal and tool names provides further evidence for category-specific brain activations, and reports task-related changes in effective connectivity among defined cerebral regions. Two partially segregated systems of functional integration were highlighted: the tool condition was associated with an enhancement of connectivity within left hemispheric regions, including the inferior prefrontal and premotor cortex, the inferior parietal lobule and the temporo-occipital junction; the animal condition was associated with greater coupling among left visual associative regions. These category-specific functional differences extend the evidence for anatomical specialization to lexical search tasks, and provide for the first time evidence of category-specific patterns of functional integration in word-retrieval.
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- 2005
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6. Deconstructing the Bilingual Structural Connectome: Multiple Networks associated with Dual-Language Experiential Factors
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Fedeli, D, Del Maschio, N, Sulpizio, S, Rothman, J, Abutalebi, J, Fedeli, D, Del Maschio, N, Sulpizio, S, Rothman, J, and Abutalebi, J
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DTI ,bilingualism - Published
- 2021
7. Second Language Naming Predicts Left Temporal Pole Integrity in Bilinguals
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Abutalebi, J., Cannini, M., Rosa, P. Della, Shueng, L., and Weekes, B.
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- 2013
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8. How bilingualism protects the brain from aging: Insights from bimodal bilinguals
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Li L., Abutalebi J., Emmorey K., Gong G., Yan X., Feng X., Zou L., Ding G., Li, L., Abutalebi, J., Emmorey, K., Gong, G., Yan, X., Feng, X., Zou, L., and Ding, G.
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Adult ,Male ,Aging ,bimodal bilingual ,Brain ,cortical surface area ,Multilingualism ,Organ Size ,Middle Aged ,Neuroprotection ,neural reserve ,Sign Language ,Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ,Linear Model ,Female ,gray matter volume ,Gray Matter ,Aged ,Human - Abstract
Bilingual experience can delay cognitive decline during aging. A general hypothesis is that the executive control system of bilinguals faces an increased load due to controlling two languages, and this increased load results in a more “tuned brain” that eventually creates a neural reserve. Here we explored whether such a neuroprotective effect is independent of language modality, i.e., not limited to bilinguals who speak two languages but also occurs for bilinguals who use a spoken and a signed language. We addressed this issue by comparing bimodal bilinguals to monolinguals in order to detect age-induced structural brain changes and to determine whether we can detect the same beneficial effects on brain structure, in terms of preservation of gray matter volume (GMV), for bimodal bilinguals as has been reported for unimodal bilinguals. Our GMV analyses revealed a significant interaction effect of age × group in the bilateral anterior temporal lobes, left hippocampus/amygdala, and left insula where bimodal bilinguals showed slight GMV increases while monolinguals showed significant age-induced GMV decreases. We further found through cortical surface-based measurements that this effect was present for surface area and not for cortical thickness. Moreover, to further explore the hypothesis that overall bilingualism provides neuroprotection, we carried out a direct comparison of GMV, extracted from the brain regions reported above, between bimodal bilinguals, unimodal bilinguals, and monolinguals. Bilinguals, regardless of language modality, exhibited higher GMV compared to monolinguals. This finding highlights the general beneficial effects provided by experience handling two language systems, whether signed or spoken. Hum Brain Mapp 38:4109–4124, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- 2017
9. Impaired Word Retrieval in Aphasia: A Trilingual Cantonese-English-Mandarin Case Study
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Lam, K., Weekes, B., Kong, A., and Abutalebi, J.
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- 2012
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10. The bilingual brain: linguistic and non-linguistic skills. Brain and Language
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Abutalebi, J, Tettamanti, M., Perani, D, Abutalebi, J, Tettamanti, M, and Perani, D
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Bilingualism - Published
- 2009
11. A new approach to study differential recovery in bilingual aphasia: the combination of er-fMRI, DCM and DTI
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Abutalebi, J., Della Rosa, P. A., Scifo, P., Tognonato, C., Daccò, S., Tettamanti, M., Cappa, S. F., Abutalebi, J, Della Rosa, P, Scifo, P, Tognonato, C, Daccò, S, Tettamanti, M, and Cappa, S
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Aphasia - Published
- 2007
12. Defective Auditory-Verbal Short-Term Memory and Developmental Dyslexia: a Case Study
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Cotelli, M., Abutalebi, J., Vallar, G., stefano cappa, Cotelli, M, Abutalebi, Jubin, Vallar, G, and Cappa, Sf
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- 1999
13. Generalization of the effects of phonological training for anomia using structural equation modelling: A multiple single-case study.
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Vitali, P., Tettamanti, M., Abutalebi, J., Ansaldo, A.-I., Perani, D., Cappa, S.F., and Joanette, Y.
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ANOMIA ,MAGNETIC resonance imaging ,BRAIN ,COGNITIVE ability ,PHONOLOGY - Abstract
Structural Equation Modelling analysis of three longitudinal er-fMRI sessions was used to test the impact of phonological training and of the generalization process on the pattern of brain connectivity during overt picture naming in two chronic anomic patients. Phonological training yielded a positive effect on the trained material. Six months after the training, a generalization of the positive impact on the untrained items was also observed. Connectivity analysis showed that training and generalization effects shared paralleled cortical patterns of functional integration. These findings may represent the neurophysiological correlate of the training-induced cognitive strategies for the compensation of anomia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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14. Control mechanisms in bilingual language production: neural evidence from language switching studies.
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Abutalebi J and Green DW
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A key question in bilingual language production research is how bilingual individuals control the use of their two languages. The psycholinguistic literature concerning language control is unresolved. It is a matter of controversy whether (a) issues to do with control are central to understanding bilingual language processing; and (b) if they are, what is the site or sites of control; and (c) whether language control in bilinguals relies upon inhibitory mechanisms. One way to deepen our understanding of language control is to consider the implications from research on functional neuroimaging. In the present paper, we illustrate that neuroimaging research shows that bilinguals engage cognitive control networks for achieving tasks such as language switching. The neural evidence points to multiple neural regions of control that may rely upon an inhibitory mechanism. These 'brain data' may, in turn, stimulate the development of neurocognitive accounts of bilingual language processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
15. Anton's syndrome following callosal disconnection.
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Abutalebi, J., Arcari, C., Rocca, M.A., Rossi, P., Comola, M., Comi, G.C., Rovaris, M., and Filippi, M.
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SYNDROMES , *ANOSOGNOSIA , *CORPUS callosum , *BLINDNESS , *NEUROLOGY , *NEUROPSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
Anosognosia for cortical blindness, also called Anton's syndrome, is a rare neurological disorder usually following bilateral lesions to occipital cortices. Neuropsychological, morphological and functional neuroimaging (SPECT and fMRI) findings are reported in a patient who incurred Anton's syndrome after an ischaemic lesion confined to the left occipital lobe involving the corpus callosum. The present case study suggests that Anton's syndrome may also follow from lesions disconnecting the occipital cortices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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16. Recovery from anomia: Effects of specific rehabilitation on brain reorganisation: An er-fMRI study in 2 anomic patients
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Vitali, P., Tettamanti, M., Abutalebi, J., Danna, M., Ansaldo, A.I., Perani, D., Cappa, S., and Joanette, Y.
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- 2003
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17. Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect
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Nicola Del Maschio, Federico Crespi, Francesca Peressotti, Jubin Abutalebi, Simone Sulpizio, Del Maschio, N, Crespi, F, Peressotti, F, Abutalebi, J, Sulpizio, S, Del Maschio, N., Crespi, F., Peressotti, F., Abutalebi, J., and Sulpizio, S.
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meta-analysis ,Linguistics and Language ,Foreign-language effect ,foreign language effect, bilingualism, decision making, meta-analysis ,emotion ,decision-making ,foreign language effect ,bilingualism ,Language and Linguistics ,decision making ,meta-analysi ,Education - Abstract
In the present meta-analysis, we investigated the robustness and the magnitude of the Foreign Language Effect (FLE) – that is, the putative effect of language context (native versus foreign language) on decision-making. We also investigated whether the FLE is moderated by language experience – measured by second language age of acquisition and proficiency – or by methodological choices – the types of decision problems adopted, the presentation modality of the tasks administered, and the perspective in which problems are framed. Our results showed a reliable FLE, which was not moderated by language experience or methodological choices. We discuss our findings in relation to available theories of FLE, and indicate possible future directions to improve our understanding of the interplay between bilingualism and decision-making.
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- 2022
18. Bilingualism as a gradient measure modulates functional connectivity of language and control networks
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Nicola Del Maschio, Jubin Abutalebi, Gianpaolo Del Mauro, Simone Sulpizio, Davide Fedeli, Sulpizio, S, Del Maschio, N, Del Mauro, G, Fedeli, D, Abutalebi, J, Sulpizio, S., Del Maschio, N., Del Mauro, G., Fedeli, D., and Abutalebi, J.
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Adult ,Bilingualism ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Multilingualism ,Measure (mathematics) ,050105 experimental psychology ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,Executive Function ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010 ,Factor (programming language) ,Phenomenon ,Neuroplasticity ,Connectome ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Resting-state connectivity ,Control (linguistics) ,Neuroscience of multilingualism ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010 ,computer.programming_language ,Cerebral Cortex ,Neuronal Plasticity ,05 social sciences ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Language experience ,Variable (computer science) ,Neurology ,Nerve Net ,Language Experience Approach ,Psychology ,computer ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
There is currently no agreement on which factor modulates most effectively and enduringly brain plasticity in bilingual individuals. Grouping heterogeneous linguistic profiles under a dichotomous condition (bilingualism versus monolingualism) may obscure critical aspects of language experience underlying neural changes, thus leading to variable and often conflicting findings. In the present study, we overcome these limitations by analyzing the individual and joint contribution of L2 AoA, proficiency and usage – all measured as continuous variables – on the resting-state functional connectivity of the brain networks mediating the specific demands of bilingual language processing: the language network and the executive control network. Our results indicate that bilingual experience – defined as a continuous and multifaceted phenomenon – impacts brain plasticity by modulating the functional connectivity both within and between language and control networks. Each experience-related factor considered played a role in changing the connectivity of these regions. Moreover, the effect of AoA was modulated by proficiency and usage. These findings shed new light on the importance of modeling bilingualism as a gradient measure rather than an all-or-none phenomenon.
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- 2020
19. The relationship between bilingual experience and gyrification in adulthood: A cross-sectional surface-based morphometry study
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Jubin Abutalebi, Simone Sulpizio, Nicola Del Maschio, Davide Fedeli, Del Maschio, N, Fedeli, D, Sulpizio, S, Abutalebi, J, Del Maschio, N., Fedeli, D., Sulpizio, S., and Abutalebi, J.
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Cingulate cortex ,Adult ,Male ,Linguistics and Language ,Aging ,Bilingualism ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Neuroimaging ,Multilingualism ,Gyrus Cinguli ,050105 experimental psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,White matter ,03 medical and health sciences ,Speech and Hearing ,0302 clinical medicine ,Neuroplasticity ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Gray Matter ,Gyrification ,Pathological ,Entorhinal cortex ,Cerebral Cortex ,Cross-Sectional Studie ,Neuronal Plasticity ,05 social sciences ,Brain ,Middle Aged ,White Matter ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cerebral cortex ,Surface-based morphometry ,Female ,Psychology ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Human - Abstract
Neuroimaging evidence suggests that bilingualism may act as a source of neural plasticity. However, prior work has mostly focused on bilingualism-induced alterations in gray matter volume and white matter tract microstructure, with additional effects related to other neurostructural indices that might have remained undetected. The degree of cortical folding or gyrification is a morphometric parameter which provides information about changes on the brain's surface during development, aging and disease. We used Surface-based Morphometry (SBM) to investigate the contribution of bilingual experience to gyrification from early adulthood to old age in a sample of bilinguals and monolingual controls. Despite widespread cortical folding reductions for all participants with increasing age, preserved gyrification exclusive to bilinguals was detected in the right cingulate and entorhinal cortices, regions vulnerable with normal and pathological brain aging. Our results provide novel insights on experience-related cortical reshaping and bilingualism-induced cortical plasticity in adulthood.
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- 2019
20. Cingulate cortex morphology impacts on neurofunctional activity and behavioral performance in interference tasks
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Davide Fedeli, Nicola Del Maschio, Gianpaolo Del Mauro, Federica Defendenti, Simone Sulpizio, Jubin Abutalebi, Fedeli, D, Del Maschio, N, Del Mauro, G, Defendenti, F, Sulpizio, S, and Abutalebi, J
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Brain Mapping ,Multidisciplinary ,Humans ,Nervous System Physiological Phenomena ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Gyrus Cinguli ,Human - Abstract
Inhibitory control is the capacity to withhold or suppress a thought or action intentionally. The anterior Midcingulate Cortex (aMCC) participates in response inhibition, a proxy measure of inhibitory control. Recent research suggests that response inhibition is modulated by individual variability in the aMCC sulcal morphology. However, no study has investigated if this phenomenon is associated with neurofunctional differences during a task. In this study, 42 participants performed an Attention Network Task and a Numerical Stroop task in an MRI scanner. We investigated differences in brain activity and response inhibition efficiency between individuals with symmetric and asymmetric aMCC sulcal patterns. The results showed that aMCC morphological variability is partly associated with inhibitory control, and revealed greater activation in individuals with symmetric patterns during the Stroop task. Our findings provide novel insights into the functional correlates of the relationship between aMCC morphology and executive abilities.
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- 2022
21. The processing of bilingual (switched) compound verbs: Competition of words from different categories for lexical selection
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Mehdi Purmohammad, Constanze Vorwerg, Jubin Abutalebi, Purmohammad, M., Vorwerg, C., and Abutalebi, J.
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Linguistics and Language ,lexical selection ,bilingual language production ,code-switching ,grammatical encoding ,bilingual compound verb ,Language and Linguistics ,Education - Abstract
This paper investigates the production of Persian–English bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) of the type [VERB+VERB]. In this type of code-switched structure, a lexical verb from the donor language English is combined with a light verb from the native language Persian. We tested the hypothesis that in Persian–English BCVs English verbs occupy the nominal slots of monolingual Persian complex predicates of the type [NOMINAL+VERB]. Two methodologies were used. A conversational-corpus analysis confirmed our predictions that Persian–English BCVs have translation-equivalent Persian compound verbs, that the English verbs denote the same action as the nominal constituents of those monolingual constructions, and that the support verbs tend to correspond in both types of compound verbs. A bilingual picture-word interference experiment provided evidence suggesting that English verbs interfere with the production of the nominal constituents of complex Persian verbs in Persian-bilingual speakers. We conclude that words from different word categories can compete for lexical access.
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- 2022
22. Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect on bilinguals' language experience
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Nicola Del Maschio, Gianpaolo Del Mauro, Camilla Bellini, Jubin Abutalebi, Simone Sulpizio, Del Maschio, N, Del Mauro, G, Bellini, C, Abutalebi, J, and Sulpizio, S
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Linguistics and Language ,moral decision-making ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,bilingualism ,foreign language effect ,individual difference ,Language and Linguistics - Abstract
The moral foreign language effect (MFLE) describes how people’s decisions may change when a moral dilemma is presented in either their native (NL) or foreign language (FL). Growing attention is being directed to unpacking what aspects of bilingualism may influence the MFLE, though with mixed or inconclusive results. The current study aims to bridge this gap by adopting a conceptualization of bilingualism that frames this construct as a composite and continuous measure. In a between-group analysis, we asked 196 Italian–English bilinguals to perform a moral dilemmas task in either their NL (i.e., Italian) or FL (i.e., English). In a within-group analysis, we evaluated the effects of FL age of acquisition, FL proficiency, and language dominance – all measured as continuous variables – on moral decision-making. Overall, findings indicate that differences within bilinguals’ language experience impact moral decisions in an FL. However, the effect of the linguistic factors considered was not ubiquitous across dilemmas, and not always emerged into a MFLE. In light of these results, our study addresses the importance of treating bilingualism as multidimensional, rather than a unitary variable. It also discusses the need to reconceptualize the FLE and its implications on moral decision-making.
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- 2022
23. Bilingualism and aging ; Why research should continue
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Davide Fedeli, Nicola Del Maschio, Jubin Abutalebi, Del Maschio, N., Fedeli, D., and Abutalebi, J.
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Linguistics and Language ,education.field_of_study ,Bilingualism ,05 social sciences ,Population ,Cognitive decline ,050105 experimental psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Functional independence ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Dementia ,education ,Psychology ,Neurocognitive ,Neuroscience of multilingualism ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Whether bilingualism acts positively against neurocognitive decline is intensely debated. Although some reasons for it might be ideological, variability in sampling procedures and experimental design represent potential sources of inconsistency among studies. In this paper, we contend that bilingualism renders the extra-years of life of an increasingly long-lived population cognitively healthy, but only under specific conditions such as continuous practice and immersion in bilingual environments. We thus disagree with some authors’ recommendation that bilingualism be removed from consideration as a neuroprotective factor. We suggest, at the same time, that bilingualism should not be treated as axiologically superior to other environmental measures that promise to contrast the progressive loss of functional independence with increasing age. We conclude by emphasizing the need to evaluate the protective effects of L2-learning on the aging brain in a multimodal intervention perspective, thereby dissociating the effects of bilingualism from those of other cognitively stimulating factors.
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- 2021
24. Second language use rather than second language knowledge relates to changes in white matter microstructure
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Davide Fedeli, Gianpaolo Del Mauro, Simone Sulpizio, Nicola Del Maschio, Camilla Caprioglio, Jubin Abutalebi, Michelle Toti, Del Maschio, N, Sulpizio, S, Toti, M, Caprioglio, C, Del Mauro, G, Fedeli, D, Abutalebi, J, DEL MASCHIO, NICOLA ALESSANDRO, Sulpizio, Simone, Toti, Michelle, Caprioglio, Camilla, DEL MAURO, Gianpaolo, Fedeli, Davide, and Abutalebi, Jubin
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Linguistics and Language ,Second language use ,Conceptualization ,Point (typography) ,Bilingualism ,Structural connectivity ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Variable (computer science) ,Age of Acquisition ,White matter microstructure ,Language Experience Approach ,Psychology ,Control (linguistics) ,Neuroscience of multilingualism ,Cognitive linguistics ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Learning and learning to regulate more than one language is shown to have an impact on the structural connectivity of the brain in networks related to language processing and executive control. The available evidence remains however variable in terms of the occurrence, localization and extent of these effects. Variability likely depends on the fact that grouping heterogeneous linguistic profiles under a dichotomous condition (bilingualism vs. monolingualism) may obscure critical aspects of language experience underlying white matter changes. Here, we treated the main quantifiable features in which bilingual experience can be partitioned—that is, age of acquisition, proficiency and use of a second language—as continuous variables, and tested their effects on a sample of young adult participants. Findings indicate that the time spent using a second language, rather than the age of acquisition or knowledge of that language, significantly modulates white matter microstructure in a bilateral cingulo-frontal cluster encompassing structures primarily related to language control. Taken together, these data point to a usage-dependent remodeling of cingulo-frontal connections, and substantiate the conceptualization of bilingualism as a complex and dynamic experience.
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- 2020
25. Thinking outside the box: The brain-bilingualism relationship in the light of early neurobiological variability
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Jubin Abutalebi, Nicola Del Maschio, Simone Sulpizio, Del Maschio, N, Sulpizio, S, and Abutalebi, J
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Linguistics and Language ,Bilingualism ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Multilingualism ,Neuroimaging ,Cognitive neuroscience ,050105 experimental psychology ,Language and Linguistics ,Thinking ,03 medical and health sciences ,Speech and Hearing ,Brain anatomy ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cognition ,Neurobiology ,Structure-leading-function ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Neuroscience of multilingualism ,Language ,Cognitive science ,Brain Mapping ,Brain-behavior relationship ,05 social sciences ,Perspective (graphical) ,Brain ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Sulcal pattern ,Structural MRI ,Second language ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Bilingualism represents a distinctive way to investigate the interplay between brain and behaviour, and an elegant model to study the role of environmental factors in shaping this relationship. Past neuroimaging research has mainly focused on how bilingualism influences brain structure, and how eventually the brain accommodates a second language. In this paper, we discuss a more recent contribution to the field which views bilingualism as lens to understand brain-behaviour mappings from a different perspective. It has been shown, in contexts not related to bilingualism, that cognitive performance across several domains can be predicted by neuroanatomical variants determined prenatally and largely impervious to postnatal changes. Here, we discuss novel findings indicating that bilingualism modulates the predictive role of these variants on domain-specific cognition. The repercussions of these findings are potentially far-reaching on multiple levels, and highlight the need to shape more complex questions for progress in cognitive neuroscience approaches to bilingualism.
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- 2020
26. Rehabilitation of covid-19 patients with acute lower extremity ischaemia and amputation
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Giuseppe D'Angelo, Sandro Iannaccone, Luigia Brugliera, Pietro Mortini, Jubin Abutalebi, Sara M. Angelone, Alfio Spina, Jody Filippo Capitanio, Pietro Arcuri, Federica Alemanno, Maria Grazia Deriu, Chiara Zanetta, Elise Houdayer, Carlo Meloni, Paola Castellazzi, Paolo Cimino, Brugliera, L., Spina, A., Castellazzi, P., Cimino, P., Arcuri, P., Deriu, M. G., Zanetta, C., Angelone, S. M., Capitanio, J. F., Alemanno, F., Meloni, C., D'Angelo, G., Houdayer, E., Abutalebi, J., Mortini, P., and Iannaccone, S.
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Ischemia ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Disease ,Ischaemia ,Amputation, Surgical ,rehabilitation ,Betacoronavirus ,Quality of life ,amputation ,COVID-19 coagulopathy ,medicine ,Coagulopathy ,Humans ,Amputation ,Pandemics ,Aged ,Rehabilitation ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Medical record ,lcsh:RM1-950 ,Neuropsychology ,covid-19 coagulopathy ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,Blood Coagulation Disorders ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,sars-cov-2 ,lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology ,covid-19 ,Italy ,Lower Extremity ,Physical therapy ,Quality of Life ,ischaemia ,business ,Coronavirus Infections - Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the clinical characteristics and rehabilitation management of patients who undergo amputation for COVID-19-associated coagulopathy. Methods: Clinical and laboratory data for 3 patients were analysed and their rehabilitative management discussed. Results: The medical records of 3 patients who had undergone amputation due to acute lower extremity ischaemia and who were provided with rehabilitation in the COVID-19 unit at San Raffaele Scientific Insitute, Milan Italy were reviewed. Conclusion: Coagulation changes related to SARSCoV- 2 may complicate recovery from this devastating disease. The rehabilitation management of amputated patients for COVID-19 acute lower extremity ischaemia is based on a multilevel approach for clinical, functional, nutritional and neuropsychological needs. Based on this limited experience, a dedicated programme for this specific group of patients seems advantageous to warrant the best functional outcome and quality of life.
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- 2020
27. Sulcal Pattern Variability and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex Functional Connectivity across Adult Age
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Simone Sulpizio, Jubin Abutalebi, Davide Fedeli, Camilla Caprioglio, Nicola Del Maschio, Fedeli, D, Del Maschio, N, Caprioglio, C, Sulpizio, S, and Abutalebi, J
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Adult ,Male ,Dorsum ,Aging ,resting-state functional connectivity ,Individuality ,Cortical morphology ,paracingulate sulcu ,Biology ,Gyrus Cinguli ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Adult age ,050105 experimental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cognition ,0302 clinical medicine ,sulcal pattern ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Anterior cingulate cortex ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Cerebral Cortex ,Brain Mapping ,General Neuroscience ,Functional connectivity ,05 social sciences ,Brain ,Environmental adaptation ,Middle Aged ,cortical morphology ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,structure-function relationship ,anterior cingulate cortex ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Functional activity ,Female ,Nerve Net ,Neuroscience ,psychological phenomena and processes ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Background: The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is a key network hub for cognitive control and environmental adaptation. Previous studies have shown that task-based functional activity in this area is constrained by individual differences in sulcal pattern, a morphologic feature of cortex anatomy determined during fetal life and stable throughout development. Methods: By using anatomical magnetic resonance imaging and seed-based resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), we explored the influence of sulcal pattern variability on the functional architecture of the dACC in a sample of healthy adults aged 20-80 years (n = 173). Results: Overall, rsFC was associated with individual differences in sulcal pattern. Furthermore, rsFC was modulated by the age-sulcal pattern interaction. Conclusion: Our results suggest a relationship between brain structure and function that partly traces back to early stages of brain development. The modulation of rsFC by the age-sulcal pattern interaction indicates that the effects of sulcal pattern variability on the functional architecture of the dACC may change over adulthood, with potential repercussions for brain network efficiency and cognitive function in aging.
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- 2020
28. Language and syntactic impairment following stroke in late bilingual aphasics.
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Tschirren M, Laganaro M, Michel P, Martory MD, Di Pietro M, Abutalebi J, and Annoni JM
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PURPOSE: Bilingual aphasia generally affects both languages. However, the age of acquisition of the second language (L2) seems to play a role in the anatomo-functional correlation of the syntactical/grammatical processes, thus potentially influencing the L2 syntactic impairment following a stroke. The present study aims to analyze the influence of late age of acquisition of the L2 on syntactic impairment in bilingual aphasic patients. METHODS: Twelve late bilingual participants (speaking French as L2 and either English, German, Italian or Spanish as L1) with stroke-induced aphasia participated in the study. The MAST or BAT aphasia batteries were used to evaluate overall aphasia score. An auditory syntactic judgement task was developed and used to test participants syntactic performance. RESULTS: The overall aphasia scores did not differ between L1 and L2. In a multiple case analysis, only one patient had lower scores in L2. However, four patients presented significantly lower performances in syntactic processing in the late L2 than in their native language (L1). In these four patients the infarct was localized, either exclusively or at least partially, in the pre-rolandic region. CONCLUSION: This pilot study suggests that, in late bilingual aphasics, syntactic judgment abilities may be more severely impaired in L2, and that this syntactic deficit is most likely to occur following anterior lesions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
29. Behavioral assessment of activity-based-anorexia: how cognition can become the drive wheel
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Simone Sulpizio, Jubin Abutalebi, Jacopo Lamanna, Riccardo Maria Martoni, Antonio Malgaroli, Mattia Ferro, Lamanna, J, Sulpizio, S, Ferro, M, Martoni, R, Abutalebi, J, Malgaroli, A, Lamanna, Jacopo, Sulpizio, Simone, Ferro, Mattia, Martoni, Riccardo, Abutalebi, Jubin, and Malgaroli, Antonio
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Anorexia ,Anorexia nervosa ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,Animal model ,Cognition ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Set (psychology) ,Behavior ,fungi ,05 social sciences ,Eating disorder ,food and beverages ,Neurophysiology ,medicine.disease ,Rats ,Eating disorders ,Disease Models, Animal ,ABA ,Cognitive function ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Neuroscience ,Neurocognitive ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a disorder with a dramatic impact on both the individual and society. Besides severe weight loss, excessive physical exercise and cognitive disturbances can be present in patients with AN as primary symptoms of the pathology or as secondary effects induced by physical and metabolic alterations. Mechanistic research in this field has taken advantage of a well characterized animal model, the activity-based anorexia model (ABA). ABA rodents and subjects with AN show clear behavioral and physiological similarities, but a throughout neurocognitive assessment of the model is still missing. Here, we review the available literature in the ABA field, highlighting similarities between ABA and AN at the behavioral, neurophysiological and cognitive level. Furthermore, based on availability, feasibility and adaptability of rodent behavioral protocols, we propose a set of neurocognitive assays that can be performed on the ABA. The proposed assessment represents an important step forward in the validation and extension of the ABA model, opening several routes of investigation related to AN and other eating disorders.
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30. If experience is not enough: Understanding multilingualism through early neurobiological variability
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Jubin Abutalebi, Simone Sulpizio, Sulpizio, S, Abutalebi, J, Sulpizio, Simone, and Abutalebi, Jubin
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Linguistics and Language ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,multilingualism ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Multilingualism ,Psychology ,neurobiological variability ,Cognitive psychology - Published
- 2019
31. ACC sulcal patterns and their modulation on cognitive control efficiency across lifespan: A neuroanatomical study on bilinguals and monolinguals
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Davide Fedeli, Keerthi Ramanujan, Guosheng Ding, Jubin Abutalebi, Nicola Del Maschio, Simone Sulpizio, Arnaud Cachia, Brendan S. Weekes, Del Maschio, N, Sulpizio, S, Fedeli, D, Ramanujan, K, Ding, G, Weekes, B, Cachia, A, Abutalebi, J, Del Maschio, Nicola, Sulpizio, Simone, Fedeli, Davide, Ramanujan, Keerthi, Ding, Guosheng, Weekes, Brendan S, Cachia, Arnaud, and Abutalebi, Jubin
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Adult ,Male ,Adolescent ,Bilingualism ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Longevity ,Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) ,Cognitive efficiency ,Multilingualism ,Biology ,anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), bilingualism, cognitive control, paracingulate sulcus ,Gyrus Cinguli ,050105 experimental psychology ,Paracingulate sulcus (PCS) ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Cognition ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Anterior cingulate cortex ,Aged ,Brain Mapping ,05 social sciences ,Middle Aged ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Large sample ,stomatognathic diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,nervous system ,Healthy individuals ,Cognitive control ,Female ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a key structure implicated in the regulation of cognitive control (CC). Previous studies suggest that variability in the ACC sulcal pattern—a neurodevelopmental marker unaffected by maturation or plasticity after birth—is associated with intersubject differences in CC performance. Here, we investigated whether bilingual experience modulates the effects of ACC sulcal variability on CC performance across the lifespan. Using structural MRI, we first established the distribution of the ACC sulcal patterns in a large sample of healthy individuals (N = 270) differing on gender and ethnicity. Second, a participants’ subsample (N = 157) was selected to test whether CC performance was differentially affected by ACC sulcation in bilinguals and monolinguals across age. A prevalent leftward asymmetry unaffected by gender or ethnicity was reported. Sulcal variability in the ACC predicted CC performance differently in bilinguals and monolinguals, with a reversed pattern of structure–function relationship: asymmetrical versus symmetrical ACC sulcal patterns were associated with a performance advantage in monolinguals and a performance detriment to bilinguals and vice versa. Altogether, these findings provide novel insights on the dynamic interplay between early neurodevelopment, environmental background and cognitive efficiency across age.
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32. Interference and conflict monitoring in individuals with anmestic mild cognitive impairment: A structural stuudy of the anterior cingulate cortex
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Andrea Falini, Sandro Iannaccone, Antonella Iadanza, Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa, Jubin Abutalebi, Eleonora Catricalà, Virginia M. Borsa, Matteo Canini, Borsa, Vm, Della Rosa, Pa, Catricalà, E, Canini, M, Iadanza, A, Falini, Andrea, Abutalebi, J, and Iannaccone, S.
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Neuroimaging ,Grey matter ,Audiology ,Neuropsychological Tests ,Interference (genetic) ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Gyrus Cinguli ,050105 experimental psychology ,Conflict, Psychological ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,mental disorders ,Neural Pathways ,medicine ,Memory impairment ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Cognitive Dysfunction ,Gray Matter ,Cognitive impairment ,Anterior cingulate cortex ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Motor area ,05 social sciences ,Attentional control ,Motor Cortex ,Middle Aged ,Executive functions ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Case-Control Studies ,Female ,Amnesia ,Psychology ,psychological phenomena and processes ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Psychomotor Performance ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is a clinical condition characterized by memory impairment in the absence of any other cognitive impairment and is commonly associated with high conversion to Alzheimer's disease. Recent evidence shows that executive functions and selective attention mechanisms could also be impaired in aMCI. In this study, we investigated performance differences (i.e., reaction times [RTs] and accuracy) between a group of aMCI participants and a group of age-matched healthy individuals on the attentional network task (ANT) focusing on situations with increased interference. In particular, we assessed the relationship between interference and conflict effects and grey matter volumes (GMVs) of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)/pre-supplementary motor area in the entire sample because of its crucial role in conflict monitoring. When compared with controls, aMCI participants were less accurate on the ANT, showing increased interference and conflict effects, but no differences in RTs. In addition, aMCI participants exhibited lower GMV in the ACC than controls. While better accuracy for interference and conflict effects was associated with an increase of GMV in the ACC for both groups, RTs from the interference effect were negatively correlated with GMV of the ACC only in aMCI participants. In other words, lower GMV values of the ACC were paralleled with significantly impaired performance in terms of interference resolution. In conclusion, our study suggests the presence of a selective impairment in interference and conflict monitoring in aMCI, which in turn is associated with decreased GMVs in the ACC.
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33. Neuroplasticity across the lifespan and aging effect in bilinguals and monolinguals
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Davide Fedeli, Nicola Del Maschio, Brendan S. Weekes, Jubin Abutalebi, Federico Gallo, Simone Sulpizio, Del Maschio, N, Sulpizio, S, Gallo, F, Fedeli, D, Weekes, B, Abutalebi, J, DEL MASCHIO, NICOLA ALESSANDRO, Sulpizio, Simone, Gallo, Federico, Fedeli, Davide, Weekes, Brendan S., and Abutalebi, Jubin
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Longevity ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Multilingualism ,Grey matter ,Audiology ,050105 experimental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Executive Function ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Neuroplasticity ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Reaction Time ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Young adult ,Cognitive decline ,ACC ,VBM ,Neuroscience of multilingualism ,Anterior cingulate cortex ,Aged ,Language ,Neuronal Plasticity ,05 social sciences ,aging ,Brain ,Middle Aged ,bilingualism ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,neural reserve ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,executive control ,Female ,Psychology ,Neurocognitive ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Evidence that bilingualism protects against age-related neurocognitive decline is mixed. One relatively consis- tent finding is that bilingual seniors have greater grey matter volume (GMV) in regions implicated in executive control (EC) and language processing. Here, we compare the neuroplastic effects of bilingual experience on the EC network of young and aging populations directly, and for the first time we evaluate the extent to which such effects may predict executive control performance across age. We used GMV as an index of neural reserve and response time (RT) performance on the Flanker task for measuring EC efficiency. In the presence of age-related widespread GM deterioration, bilinguals had greater GMV than monolinguals in key regions of interest across age. Moreover, whereas EC performance in monolingual seniors was strictly related to GMV, this was not ob- served for bilingual seniors or younger participants in either group. Interactions between expected effects-of-age and language group on the relationships between GMV and RT suggested that bilingualism affords differential benefits across the lifespan. In younger participants, greater GMV offered no behavioral benefit on EC perfor- mance, whilst it did for seniors. It thus appears that age-related cognitive decline following GMV loss in the EC network is delayed in bilinguals.
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34. Cerebellar induced differential polyglot aphasia: A neurolinguistic and fMRI study
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Peter Mariën, Johanna Van Dormael, Stefanie Keulen, Kim van Dun, Jubin Abutalebi, Mario Manto, Dorien Vandenborre, Jo Verhoeven, Marien, P., van Dun, K., Van Dormael, J., Vandenborre, D., Keulen, S., Manto, M., Verhoeven, J., Abutalebi, J., Centre for Linguistics, Language and literature, Linguistics and Literary Studies, and Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
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Male ,Cerebellum ,REPRESENTATION ,Bilingualism ,Polyglot aphasia ,IMAGE AGREEMENT ,Multilingualism ,Brain mapping ,Language and Linguistics ,Functional Laterality ,0302 clinical medicine ,BRAIN ,Differential recovery ,Stroke ,Cerebral Cortex ,Brain Mapping ,Language Tests ,BILINGUAL APHASIA ,05 social sciences ,fMRI ,Cognition ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,P1 ,Semantics ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cerebral cortex ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,SUBCORTICAL APHASIA ,Human ,Linguistics and Language ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,050105 experimental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Speech and Hearing ,2ND-LANGUAGE ,VISUAL COMPLEXITY ,Aphasia ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,METAANALYSIS ,Aged ,Attentional control ,Polyglot ,medicine.disease ,NAME AGREEMENT ,nervous system ,LANGUAGE CONTROL ,Language Test ,RC0321 ,Neuroscience ,Semantic ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Research has shown that linguistic functions in the bilingual brain are subserved by similar neural circuits as in monolinguals, but with extra-activity associated with cognitive and attentional control. Although a role for the right cerebellum in multilingual language processing has recently been acknowledged, a potential role of the left cerebellum remains largely unexplored.This paper reports the clinical and fMRI findings in a strongly right-handed (late) multilingual patient who developed differential polyglot aphasia, ataxic dysarthria and a selective decrease in executive function due to an ischemic stroke in the left cerebellum. fMRI revealed that lexical-semantic retrieval in the unaffected L1 was predominantly associated with activations in the left cortical areas (left prefrontal area and left postcentral gyrus), while naming in two affected non-native languages recruited a significantly larger bilateral functional network, including the cerebellum. It is hypothesized that the left cerebellar insult resulted in decreased right prefrontal hemisphere functioning due to a loss of cerebellar impulses through the cerebello-cerebral pathways.
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35. Language Disorders
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Jubin Abutalebi, Stefano Cappa, Cappa SF, Abutalebi J, Démonet J-F, Fletcher P, Garrard P, Abutalebi, Jubin, and Cappa, Sf
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36. Aphasia recovery: neural mechanism
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CAPPA SF, ABUTALEBI , JUBIN, MARIEN P, ABUTALEBI J, Cappa, Sf, and Abutalebi, Jubin
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37. Behavioral and psychological signs and symptoms of dementia. Cross-sectional analysis from a prospective, longitudinal Belgian study
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Engelborghs, S., Marien, Peter, De Deyn, Peter P, Mariën, P., Abutalebi, J., and Centre for Linguistics
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dementia - Published
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38. Somaesthetic recognition disorders
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Bottini, G, GANDOLA, MARTINA, Marien, P, Abutalebi, J, Bottini, G, and Gandola, M
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tactile object recognition (TOR), somatosensory system,tactile agnosia ,M-PSI/02 - PSICOBIOLOGIA E PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGICA - Published
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39. Concluding Remarks
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Marien, Peter, Abutalebi, Jubin, Mariën, P., Abutalebi, J., and Centre for Linguistics
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neuropsychology - Published
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40. Structural and functional neuroimaging in neuropsychology
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Abutalebi, Jubin, Bartha, Lisa, Della Rosa, P.a., Marien, Peter, Mariën, P., Abutalebi, J., and Centre for Linguistics
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neurolinguistics ,Neuroimaging - Published
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41. Introduction
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Abutalebi, Jubin, Marien, Peter, Mariën, P., Abutalebi, J., and Centre for Linguistics
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neuro-linguistics - Published
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42. Cognitive and behavioural disorders associated to space-occupying lesions
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Cappa,SF, CIPOLOTTI, Lisa, Cappa, SF, Abutalebi, J, Demonet, JF, Fletcher, PC, Garrard, P, Cappa,SF, and Cipolotti,L
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Settore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia E Psicologia Fisiologica ,cognitive and behavioural disorders - Published
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43. Structural and functional Neuroimaging in Neuropsychology
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ABUTALEBI , JUBIN, DOERING LB, DELLA ROSA PA, MARIEN P., MARIEN P, ABUTALEBI J, Abutalebi, Jubin, Doering, Lb, DELLA ROSA, Pa, and Marien, P.
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44. Language control and lexical competition in bilinguals: an event-related fMRI study
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Stefano F. Cappa, Hannelore Lee-Jahnke, Asaid Khateb, Mohamed L. Seghier, Jubin Abutalebi, Alan J. Pegna, Ivan Zimine, François Lazeyras, Jean-Marie Annoni, Abutalebi, J, Annoni, Jm, Seghier, M, Pegna, Aj, Zimine, I, LEE-JAHNKE, H, Lazeyras, F, Cappa, Sf, and Khateb, A
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Adult ,Male ,Task switching ,Cerebral Cortex/physiology ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,First language ,Multilingualism ,Semantics ,Speech/physiology ,ddc:616.0757 ,Evoked Potentials/physiology ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Cognition ,Brain Mapping/methods ,Speech ,Humans ,Evoked Potentials ,Neuroscience of multilingualism ,Cognition/physiology ,Cerebral Cortex ,Brain Mapping ,Working memory ,Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,ddc:616.8 ,ddc:418.02 ,Female ,Psychology ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Language selection (or control) refers to the cognitive mechanism that controls which language to use at a given moment and context. It allows bilinguals to selectively communicate in one target language while minimizing the interferences from the nontarget language. Previous studies have suggested the participation in language control of different brain areas. However, the question remains whether the selection of one language among others relies on a language-specific neural module or general executive regions that also allow switching between different competing behavioral responses including the switching between various linguistic registers. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated the neural correlates of language selection processes in German-French bilingual subjects during picture naming in different monolingual and bilingual selection contexts. We show that naming in the first language in the bilingual context (compared with monolingual contexts) increased activation in the left caudate and anterior cingulate cortex. Furthermore, the activation of these areas is even more extended when the subjects are using a second weaker language. These findings show that language control processes engaged in contexts during which both languages must remain active recruit the left caudate and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in a manner that can be distinguished from areas engaged in intralanguage task switching.
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45. Acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia
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De Bleser, R, LUZZATTI, CLAUDIO GIUSEPPE, Mariën, P, Abutalebi, J, De Bleser, R, and Luzzatti, C
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alexia ,acquired dyslexia ,agraphia ,acquired dysgrphia ,M-PSI/02 - PSICOBIOLOGIA E PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGICA ,dual-route models of reading and writing - Abstract
Dual-route models of graphemic word processing have become paradigm cases for cognitive science and have been very successful in accounting for word and nonword reading and writing and their impairments. Although they were originally based on English, research has meanwhile been conducted on other languages and orthographies. Data are now available on several other European languages based on alphabetic scripts (French, German, and Italian), consonantal scripts (Hebrew), syllabic scripts (Japanese kana), and ideographic scripts (Chinese and Japanese kanji). Taken together, these studies point to the universality of two routes for reading, a lexical and a sublexical one, applying to nonalphabetic as well as alphabetic languages, and each route can be selectively impaired, thus suggesting their independent neural organization (Butterworth & Yin, 1991; Weekes, 2005). At the same time, neuroimaging studies of subjects in different alphabetic languages with a different degree of transparency between graphemes and phonemes suggest that a greater reliance on one or the other route depends on language-specific features (Paulesu et al., 2001). Given the similarity between languages with respect to the architecture of the model, future research can now focus on the role of specific differences.
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46. Frontal lobe dysfunction across diagnostic dementia categories
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Peter Mariën, P.P. De Deyn, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Mariën, P., Abutalebi, J., Clinical sciences, and Neurology
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Medicine(all) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Frontal lobe ,business.industry ,medicine ,Dementia ,Frontal lobe dysfunction ,Audiology ,medicine.disease ,business ,dementia - Published
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47. 146. Excitatory deep transcranial magnetic stimulation with H-coil over the right homologous Broca’s region improves naming in chronic post-stroke aphasia.
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Chieffo, R., Ferrari, F., Battista, P., Houdayer, E., Nuara, A., Alemanno, F., Abutalebi, J., Zangen, A., Comi, G., Cappa, S.F., and Leocani, L.
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TRANSCRANIAL magnetic stimulation , *APHASIA , *CEREBRAL hemispheres , *NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests , *ONOMASIOLOGY , *BRAIN function localization - Abstract
The role of the right hemisphere in post-stroke aphasia recovery is still controversial and the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the right homologous Broca’s region have been seldom investigated. This study aimed to compare the effect of excitatory, inhibitory and sham rTMS delivered with H-coil over the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) in chronic aphasic patients. Five right-handed post-stroke aphasic patients underwent a picture naming task before and immediately after each of three sessions of rTMS: excitatory (10Hz), inhibitory (1Hz) and sham rTMS, in random sequence and separated by at least 1 week. Only the excitatory 10Hz stimulation was associated with a significant improvement in naming performance, (p =0.043) and was significantly more effective than 1Hz rTMS (p =0.043). A single session of excitatory deep brain rTMS over the right IFG with H-coil significantly improves naming in right-handed chronic post-stroke aphasic patients. This result is in line with the hypothesis of a positive, rather than detrimental role, of the right hemisphere in chronic aphasia due to a left-hemispheric stroke. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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48. Neurocognitive mechanisms of emotional interference in native and foreign languages: evidence from proficient bilinguals.
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Del Maschio N, Sulpizio S, Bellini C, Del Mauro G, Giannachi M, Buga D, Fedeli D, Perani D, and Abutalebi J
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Currently available data show mixed results as to whether the processing of emotional information has the same characteristics in the native (L1) as in the second language (L2) of bilinguals. We conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to shed light on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying bilinguals' emotional processing in L1 and L2 during an emotional interference task (i.e., the Emotional Stroop Task - EST). Our sample comprised proficient Italian-English bilinguals who learned their L2 during childhood mainly in instructional rather than immersive contexts. In spite of no detectable behavioural effects, we found stronger brain activations for L1 versus L2 emotional words in sectors of the posteromedial cortex involved in attention modulation, episodic memory, and affective processing. While fMRI findings are consistent with the hypothesis of a stronger emotional resonance when processing words in a native language, our overall pattern of results points to the different sensitivity of behavioural and hemodynamic responses to emotional information in the two languages of bilingual speakers., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2024 Del Maschio, Sulpizio, Bellini, Del Mauro, Giannachi, Buga, Fedeli, Perani and Abutalebi.)
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49. Degree of multilingual engagement modulates resting state oscillatory activity across the lifespan.
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Voits T, DeLuca V, Hao J, Elin K, Abutalebi J, Duñabeitia JA, Berglund G, Gabrielsen A, Rook J, Thomsen H, Waagen P, and Rothman J
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- Humans, Male, Female, Aged, Middle Aged, Adult, Young Adult, Aging physiology, Aged, 80 and over, Cognitive Aging physiology, Adolescent, Cognition physiology, Longevity physiology, Multilingualism, Rest physiology, Electroencephalography, Brain physiology
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Multilingualism has been demonstrated to lead to a more favorable trajectory of neurocognitive aging, yet our understanding of its effect on neurocognition across the lifespan remains limited. We collected resting state EEG recordings from a sample of multilingual individuals across a wide age range. Additionally, we obtained data on participant multilingual language use patterns alongside other known lifestyle enrichment factors. Language experience was operationalized via a modified multilingual diversity (MLD) score. Generalized additive modeling was employed to examine the effects and interactions of age and MLD on resting state oscillatory power and coherence. The data suggest an independent modulatory effect of individualized multilingual engagement on age-related differences in whole brain resting state power across alpha and theta bands, and an interaction between age and MLD on resting state coherence in alpha, theta, and low beta. These results provide evidence of multilingual engagement as an independent correlational factor related to differences in resting state EEG power, consistent with the claim that multilingualism can serve as a protective factor in neurocognitive aging., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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50. Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions.
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Bellini C, Del Maschio N, Gentile M, Del Mauro G, Franceschini R, and Abutalebi J
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- Humans, Female, Male, Adult, Young Adult, Brain Mapping, Language, Emotions physiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Brain physiology, Brain diagnostic imaging, Motion Pictures, Multilingualism
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Converging evidence suggests that emotions are often dulled in one's foreign language. Here, we paired fMRI with a naturalistic viewing paradigm (i.e., original vs. dubbed versions of sad, fun and neutral movie clips) to investigate the neural correlates of emotion perception as a function of native (L1) and foreign (L2) language context. Watching emotional clips in L1 (vs. L2) reflected in activations of anterior temporal cortices involved in semantic cognition, arguably indicating a closer association of emotion concepts with the native language. The processing of fun clips in L1 (vs. L2) reflected in enhanced response of the right amygdala, suggesting a deeper emotional experience of positively valenced stimuli in the L1. Of interest, the amygdala response to fun clips positively correlated with participants' proficiency in the L2, indicating that a higher L2 competence may reduce emotional processing differences across a bilingual's two languages. Our findings are compatible with the view that language provides a context for the construction of emotions., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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