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T1 Language and Math: What If We Have Two Separate Naming Systems?
A1 Martínez González, Alejandro
K1 Code-switching
K1 Cambio de registro
K1 Bilingualism
K1 Bilingüismo
K1 Magnetoencephalography
K1 Magnetoencefalografía
K1 Numerical cognition
K1 Cognición numérica
AB The role of language in numerical processing has traditionally been restricted to countingand exact arithmetic. Nevertheless, the impact that each of a bilinguals’ languages may have in corenumerical representations has not been questioned until recently. What if the language in which mathhas been first acquired (LLmath) had a bigger impact in our math processing? Based on previousstudies on language switching we hypothesize that balanced bilinguals would behave like unbalancedbilinguals when switching between the two codes for math. In order to address this question, wemeasured the brain activity with magneto encephalography (MEG) and source estimation analyses of12 balanced Basque-Spanish speakers performing a task in which participants were unconscious ofthe switches between the two codes. The results show an asymmetric switch cost between the twocodes for math, and that the brain areas responsible for these switches are similar to those thoughtto belong to a general task switching mechanism. This implies that the dominances for math andlanguage could run separately from the general language dominance.
PB MPDI
SN 2226-471X
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/37994
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/37994
LA eng
NO Languages, 2019, vol. 3, n. 4.  21 p.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 21-nov-2024