Functional Imaging of the Brains of Bilingual Individuals While They

question 124

Multiple Choice

Functional imaging of the brains of bilingual individuals while they are speaking their native languages indicates that

• A) patterns of brain activation do not vary between languages.
• B) Broca's area is in different locations in different people.
• C) some languages depend on the right hemisphere to a much greater extent than other languages do.
• D) patterns of brain activation for each language are slightly different from the other.

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