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. 2020 Jul 20;225(7):2131–2152. doi: 10.1007/s00429-020-02115-5

Table 1.

Participant demographic and related information

Grey matter White matter
Bilinguals Monolinguals Bilinguals Monolinguals
n 141 570 127 510
n (by age range)
3–6 13 97 11 84
6.1–10 42 171 37 154
10.1–14 24 136 20 125
14.1–18 33 97 31 89
18.1–21 29 69 28 58
Mean age (SD) 12.48 (5.11) 11.15 (4.87 12.73 (5.11) 11.15 (4.79)
Females/males 77/64 283/287 67/60 251/259
Parental education level
1 = Less than 7 years of school 4 0 4 0
2 = 7–9 years of school 2 2 2 2
3 = 10–11 years of school 2 8 0 7
4 = High school graduate 10 61 9 58
5 = 1–3 years of college (also business school) 33 147 31 130
6 = 4-year college graduate 33 164 30 148
7 = Professional degree 57 188 51 165
Household income
1 =  < $5,000 8 14 6 13
2 = $5,000—9,999 3 20 3 18
3 = $10,000—19,999 6 37 5 33
4 = $20,000—29,999 6 44 6 42
5 = $30,000—39,999 10 41 9 37
6 = $40,000—49,999 10 33 8 29
7 = $50,000—99,999 45 164 43 144
8 = $100,000—149,999 23 120 20 110
9 = $150,000—199,999 12 53 9 45
10 = $200,000—249,999 10 15 10 12
11 = $250,000—299,999 4 12 4 12
12 = $300,000 +  4 17 4 15

For more information on each of the variables above (e.g., parental education level, household income) see Akshoomoff et al. (2014); Jernigan et al. (2016). The age bands are provided for informational purposes; all analyses included age as a (nonlinear) continuous variable