Figure 2.

Activity in the left and right fusiform areas is characterized by a three‐way interaction between hemisphere, participant native language, and stimulus language. While native Chinese speakers activate the regions equally for Chinese and English, native English speakers show more activity for Chinese stimuli than for English stimuli in the right hemisphere, t(5) = 4.1, P = 0.01 and more activity in the left hemisphere than the right hemisphere when viewing English stimuli, t(5) = 3.3, P < 0.05.