Do bilingual persons have distinct language areas in the brain?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - 11:35
in Psychology & Sociology
A new study carried out at the University of Haifa sheds light on how first and second languages are represented in the brain of a bilingual person. A unique single case study that was tested by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim of the Department of Learning Disabilities and published in the Behavioral and Brain Functions journal, showed that first and second languages are represented in different places in the brain.