Abstract:Pre-surgical language mapping with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is routinely conducted to assist the neurosurgeon in preventing damage to brain regions responsible for language. Functional differences exist between the monolingual versus the bilingual brain, whereas clinical fMRI tasks are typically conducted in a single language. The presence of secondary language processing mechanisms is a potential source of error in the inferred language map. From fMRI data of healthy bilingual and monoling… Show more
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