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SUBMITTER: van Heuven WJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2567421 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Heuven Walter J B WJ Schriefers Herbert H Dijkstra Ton T Hagoort Peter P
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20080418 11
The large majority of humankind is more or less fluent in 2 or even more languages. This raises the fundamental question how the language network in the brain is organized such that the correct target language is selected at a particular occasion. Here we present behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging data showing that bilingual processing leads to language conflict in the bilingual brain even when the bilinguals' task only required target language knowledge. This finding demonstra ...[more]