Editorial: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Approaches to Code-Switching and Language Switching

Treffers‐Daller, Jeanine; Ruigendijk, Esther; Hofweber, Julia

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.660695

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“…Reading a codeswitched word in a sentence context reliably elicits a modulation of two ERP components, a left lateralized negativity (LAN) followed by a late positive component (LPC) (Kutas et al 2009;Beatty-Martínez et al 2018;Treffers-Daller et al 2021;. These ERP components are thought to reflect working memory (as per Kluender and Kutas 1993) or syntactic analysis Vaughan-Evans et al 2020) and sentence integration processing costs, respectively Salmon and Pratt 2002;Leckey and Federmeier 2020;Kuperberg 2007;Van Petten and Luka 2012;Brouwer et al 2017).…”

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Multilingualism: Consequences for the Brain and Mind

2023

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Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. Preface to "Multilingualism: Consequences for the Brain and Mind"For multilinguals, acquiring and processing language is similar to other cognitive skills: they are grounded in mechanisms of sensory processing and motor control (Paradis, 2019). Recent clinical and experimental research on multilingualism have introduced innovative neuroimaging measures and psychological methods that have significantly shed light on what we know (and do not know) about how multiple languages are processed, represented, and controlled in the mind/brain (Schwieter, 2019).Since the 1990s and 2000s, a plethora of behavioral and neurological research has demonstrated that for multilinguals, all languages are active to some degree in the mind, even when only using one.Furthermore, the need for the mind to manage the ongoing competition that arises from this parallel activation has been shown to affect cognition (e.g., executive functioning) (Giovannoli et al., 2020), modify the structure and functioning of the brain (e.g., changes in the areas where language control and executive control overlap) (Costa and Sebastián-Gallés, 2014), and slow the onset or progression of cognitive and neural decline .The goal of "Multilingualism: Consequences for brain and mind" is to bring together state-of-the art papers that examine the cognitive and neurological consequences of multilingualism through an exploration of how two or more languages are processed, represented, and/or controlled in one brain/mind. The included peer-reviewed papers are either theoretically or empirically oriented and present new findings, frameworks, and/or methodologies on how multilingualism affects the brain and mind.

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“…Reading a codeswitched word in a sentence context reliably elicits a modulation of two ERP components, a left lateralized negativity (LAN) followed by a late positive component (LPC) ( Kutas et al 2009 ; Beatty-Martínez et al 2018 ; Treffers-Daller et al 2021 ; Van Hell et al 2018 ; Van Hell et al 2015 ). These ERP components are thought to reflect working memory (as per Kluender and Kutas 1993 ) or syntactic analysis ( Friederici 1995 ; Vaughan-Evans et al 2020 ) and sentence integration processing costs, respectively ( Friederici 1995 ; Salmon and Pratt 2002 ; Leckey and Federmeier 2020 ; Kuperberg 2007 ; Van Petten and Luka 2012 ; Brouwer et al 2017 ).…”

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The Effect of Code-Switching Experience on the Neural Response Elicited to a Sentential Code Switch

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2022

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Switching between languages, or codeswitching, is a cognitive ability that multilinguals can perform with ease. This study investigates whether codeswitching during sentence reading affects early access to meaning, as indexed by the robust brain response called the N400. We hypothesize that the brain prioritizes the meaning of the word during comprehension with codeswitching costs emerging at a different stage of processing. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while Spanish–English balanced bilinguals (n = 24) read Spanish sentences containing a target noun that could create a semantic violation, codeswitch or both. Self-reported frequency of daily codeswitching was used as a regressor to determine if the cost of reading a switch is modulated by codeswitching experience. A robust N400 to semantic violations was followed by a late positive component (LPC). Codeswitches modulated the left anterior negativity (LAN) and LPC, but not the N400, with codeswitched semantic violations resulting in a sub-additive interaction. Codeswitching experience modulated the LPC, but not the N400. The results suggest that early access to semantic memory during comprehension happens independent of the language in which the words are presented. Codeswitching affects a separate stage of comprehension with switching experience modulating the brain’s response to experiencing a language switch.

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“…Code-switching can provide a window into the mind to study the ways in which the grammars and lexicons of two languages interact (Muysken 2000). The current Special Issue aims to shed new light on variability in code-switching patterns and further develops themes addressed in previous Special Issues on code-switching (Kašćelan and Deuchar 2021;Munarriz-Ibarrola et al 2018;Treffers-Daller et al 2021).…”

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