Multi-Ilinguistic Neuronal Processing : fMRI Study

该项目的设计基于主要研究者（他本人在加州大学任教超过18年）与加州大学（认知神经科学）和哈佛大学（磁共振）研究者之间的长期合作努力。该项目的具体目标是确定参与人类大脑中多语言（英语与日语）语言处理的特定神经元底物。该项目产生了一个迄今为止尚未认识到的事实，即阅读的认知处理的神经解剖学基础是由语言系统差异决定的，在语言系统中，识字是第一次获得的，并且与种族背景无关。第二语言的阅读是母语的延伸。它的认知处理涉及与用于初级语言的相同的皮层结构。

The project is designed based on long-standing collaboration efforts between the principle investigator, who himself has been a faculty member of University of California for over 18 years, and investigators at University of California (Cognitive Neuroscience) and Harvard University (Magnetic Resonance). The specific aim of the project is to identify specific neuronal substrates involved in multilinguistic (English vs. Japanese) language processing in the human brain. The project has yielded a hitherto unrecognized fact that the neuroanatomical substrates underlying the cognitive processing of reading are differentially determined by the language system in which literacy is first acquired and are independent of ethnic background. Furthermore, it has clearly demonstrated that reading in the second language represents an extension of the primary language. Its cognitive processing involves the same cortical structures as those utilized for the primary language.