dc.contributor.author | Martínez, Alejandro | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-26T08:24:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-26T08:24:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Martínez, A. Language and Math: What If We Have Two Separate Naming Systems? Languages 2019, 4, 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4030068 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2226-471X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/52572 | |
dc.description | Published: 29 August 2019 | es_ES |
dc.description.abstract | The role of language in numerical processing has traditionally been restricted to counting and exact arithmetic. Nevertheless, the impact that each of a bilinguals’ languages may have in core numerical representations has not been questioned until recently. What if the language in which math has been first acquired (LLmath) had a bigger impact in our math processing? Based on previous studies on language switching we hypothesize that balanced bilinguals would behave like unbalanced bilinguals when switching between the two codes for math. In order to address this question, we measured the brain activity with magneto encephalography (MEG) and source estimation analyses of 12 balanced Basque-Spanish speakers performing a task in which participants were unconscious of the switches between the two codes. The results show an asymmetric switch cost between the two codes for math, and that the brain areas responsible for these switches are similar to those thought to belong to a general task switching mechanism. This implies that the dominances for math and language could run separately from the general language dominance. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was supported by a Basque government grant PRE_992 from the Department of Education, Policy, and Culture and by the Castile and León Regional Government and FEDER (ref. VA009P17). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | Languages | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.subject | code-switching 1 | es_ES |
dc.subject | bilingualism 2 | es_ES |
dc.subject | asymmetric switch costs 3 | es_ES |
dc.subject | MEG 4 | es_ES |
dc.subject | numerical cognition 4 | es_ES |
dc.title | Language and Math: What If We Have Two Separate Naming Systems? | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.holder | © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/languages4030068 | |