Table 3.
Oxygenated hemoglobin results for the attentional networks in child bilinguals and monolinguals.
Hemisphere | Channel | Region (approximation) | Beta (SE) | T |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alerting network (Center cue > No cue) | ||||
Monolinguals | ||||
R | 8 | Middle/Superior Frontal Gyrus | 30.93 (8.13) | 3.80** |
R | 22 | Superior Parietal/Occipital | 33.25 (7.38) | 4.50*** |
L | 6 | Middle Frontal Gyrus | 31.41 (9.38) | 3.35** |
L | 7 | Middle Frontal Gyrus | 55.77 (16.50) | 3.38** |
L | 8 | Middle/Superior Frontal Gyrus | 39.31 (9.56) | 4.11*** |
L | 9 | Middle/Superior Frontal Gyrus | 38.22 (9.82) | 3.89** |
L | 10 | Middle/Inferior Frontal Gyrus | 33.60 (9.47) | 3.55** |
Bilinguals | ||||
L | 2 | Inferior Frontal Gyrus | 48.37 (10.82) | 4.48*** |
L | 3 | Inferior Frontal Gyrus | 27.88 (7.55) | 3.69** |
L | 7 | Middle Frontal Gyrus | 52.40 (15.66) | 3.35** |
L | 8 | Middle/Superior Frontal Gyrus | 35.92 (9.82) | 3.66** |
L | 9 | Middle/Superior Frontal Gyrus | 32.71 (10.30) | 3.18** |
L | 10 | Middle/Inferior Frontal Gyrus | 34.54 (10.37) | 3.33** |
L | 11 | Middle/Superior Frontal Gyrus/Precentral | 35.79 (10.98) | 3.26** |
L | 14 | Superior/Middle Temporal | 44.21 (13.08) | 3.38** |
Orienting network (Spatial cue > Center cue) | ||||
Monolinguals | ||||
No significant suprathresholds | ||||
Bilinguals | ||||
No significant suprathresholds | ||||
Executive network (Incongruent > Congruent) | ||||
Monolinguals | ||||
No significant suprathresholds | ||||
Bilinguals | ||||
R | 6 | Middle Frontal Gyrus | 20.54 (6.50) | 3.16** |
L | 3 | Inferior Frontal Gyrus | 19.12 (5.78) | 3.31** |
L | 6 | Middle Frontal Gyrus | 15.96 (6.39) | 2.49* |
L | 8 | Middle/Superior Frontal Gyrus | 19.53 (7.39) | 2.64* |
L | 12 | Superior/Middle Temporal | 24.15 (10.09) | 2.39* |
L | 13 | Temporo-parietal | 23.39 (10.18) | 2.30* |
Notes. False discovery rate (FDR) thresholds correcting for multiple comparisons at p < 0.05 are reported.
p < 0.05
p < 0.01
p < 0.001.