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Linguistic immersion and structural effects on the bilingual brain: a longitudinal study
2018
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Learning and using additional languages can result in structural changes in the brain. However, the time course of these changes, as well as the factors the predict them, are still not well understood. In this longitudinal study we test the effects of bilingual immersion on brain structure of adult sequential bilinguals not undergoing any language training, who were scanned twice, three years apart. We observed significant increases in grey matter volume in the lower left cerebellum, mean white
doi:10.1017/s1366728918000883
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