In one fMRI study,bilingual persons completed a sentence-generation task in both of their languages.The results showed that in early bilinguals left-inferior-frontal-gyrus activation for both languages was ________ and that in late bilinguals activation was _________.
A)overlapping;separate
B)overlapping;also overlapping
C)separate;overlapping
D)separate;also separate

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Early bilinguals tend to have overlapping neural regions for both languages, indicating a shared neural substrate for language processing. In contrast, late bilinguals often show separate areas of activation, suggesting distinct neural networks for each language.

In One FMRI Study,bilingual Persons Completed a Sentence-Generation Task in Both