Table 1.

Regions of significant difference between early and late bilinguals across Uygur and Chinese.

Activation area	Activation Voxel	T	Talairach coordinates X, Y, Z	BA
Comparison of L1 and L2 in early bilingual
Early bilingual L1
L. middle temporal gyrus	91	7.73	−48 −70 −11	21
R. superior temporal gyrus	9	6.18	36 29 1	22
Early bilingual L2
L. superior frontal gyrus	122	10.21	−6 2 67	6
R. superior frontal gyrus	102	8.93	0 11 49	6
R. medial frontal gyrus	32	8.8	0 17 43	32
R. superior/inferior parietal lobule	84	8.14	30 −61 46	7/40
	26	4.18	30 −73	31
	Comparison of L1 and L2 in late bilingual
Late bilingual L1
L. middle temporal gyrus	24	5.12	−48 −49 −2	21
R. middle temporal gyrus	22	7.73	48 −70 −11	21
Late bilingual L2
R. medial frontal gyrus	52	7.1	−9 26 37	32
L. inferior occipital gyrus	81	7.34	−21 −103 4	18