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Neuroplasticity, neuroimaging, and bilingualism: Commentary on Baum and Titone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2014

Denise Klein  and
Kate E. Watkins
Denise Klein
Affiliation:
McGill University
Kate E. Watkins
Affiliation:
Oxford University
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In this comprehensive review by Baum and Titone, the authors promote the notion that bilingualism should be thought of as an agent of neuroplastic change over the life span. Their proposal offers a context within which to view early enrichment, one element of which is the early learning of two languages. The review points out the complexities of studying bilingualism and highlights empirical gaps in research that are critical to our understanding of how experience with language, especially exposure to two languages, might affect the neurocognitive system. The framework brings together disparate sets of studies in the literature across multiple methods, models, and disparate repertoires of descriptive terms.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , September 2014 , pp. 917 - 920
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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