摘要：Research has shown that using a second language can induce brain plasticity (Abutalebi et al.2013, Della Rosa et al. 2013). Furthermore, vocabulary learning induces neurostructural advantagesin bilingual speakers (Richardson et al. 2010; Stein et al. (2012). One candidate region for neuralplasticity reflecting second language proficiency is the temporal pole (Lambon Ralph, et al.2009).We hypothesized that second language (L2) proficiency would predict grey matter (GM)values in the temporal pole.
