Rodríguez Pujadas, AinaSanjuán, AnaVentura Campos, NoeliaRomán, PatriciaMartin, Clara D.Barceló-Arroyo, FranciscoCosta, Albert, 1970-Ávila, César2016-02-172016-02-172013Rodriguez-Pujadas A, Sanjuan A, Ventura-Campos N, Roman P, Martin C, Barcelo F, Costa A, Avila C. Bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals to perform non-linguistic switching tasks. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(9):1-8. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073028.1932-6203http://hdl.handle.net/10230/25860We tested the hypothesis that early bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals when performing/nnon-linguistic executive control tasks. We do so by exploring the brain activity of early bilinguals and monolinguals in a taskswitching/nparadigm using an embedded critical trial design. Crucially, the task was designed such that the behavioural/nperformance of the two groups was comparable, allowing then to have a safer comparison between the corresponding/nbrain activity in the two groups. Despite the lack of behavioural differences between both groups, early bilinguals used/nlanguage-control areas – such as left caudate, and left inferior and middle frontal gyri – more than monolinguals, when/nperforming the switching task. Results offer direct support for the notion that, early bilingualism exerts an effect in the/nneural circuitry responsible for executive control. This effect partially involves the recruitment of brain areas involved in/nlanguage control when performing domain-general executive control tasks, highlighting the cross-talk between these two/ndomains.application/pdfeng© 2013 Rodríguez-Pujadas et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which/npermits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073028info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess