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Neural impact of native language literacy on the processing of non-native languages. Evidence from Chinese-English-Japanese and Vietnamese-English-Japanese trilinguals

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00687
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02090:Japanese language education-related
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

Dinh Thuy  京都大学, 医学研究科, 研究員 (30602073)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 中村 仁洋  国立障害者リハビリテーションセンター(研究所), 研究所 脳機能系障害研究部, 主任研究官 (40359633)
藤本 晃司  京都大学, 医学研究科, 特定准教授 (10580110)
岡田 知久  京都大学, 医学研究科, 准教授 (30321607)
Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywordsbilingual / fMRI / language function / 7T MRI / denoising / cognitive neuroscience
Outline of Final Research Achievements

1)Head motion during the acquisition of fMRI data can significantly contaminate the neural signal and induce spurious, distance-dependent changes in signal correlations. Recently, ICA-based denoising technique has widely been used as a powerful tool for removing spurious motion-related signal from the data. The present study used ICA as a denoising approach and showed a strong correlation between the number of total ICA components with head mean motion and FD, which indicated that the number of ICA components can be a screening index for detecting high motion-related fMRI datasets.
2)The present study showed that there were different brain activation for phonological decision in Japanese and English languages in trilingual Chinese-native speakers. Once again, our results strongly demonstrated that nature of L1 literate influences how our brain processes the different L2 languages. This in turn may indicate that the educational strategies can be used to manipulate the acquisition of L2.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

While the native language (L1) is considered to be an inborn ability and acquired
universally in the evolutionary process of human being, the nature of the second language (L2) is an acquired skill and the neural system involved in the operation of L2 may express the literacy influence of L1.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (1 results)

All 2021

All Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Presentation] Influence of head motion on the output of Independent Component Analysis (ICA)-based denoising of task-related fMRI data at 7T2021

    • Author(s)
      Dinh Ha Duy Thuy
    • Organizer
      ISMRM2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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