Figure 11.15: Bilingual speakers made grammatical judgments in their second language. For adults who were highly proficient in both languages (A), different parts of the brain were involved in making grammatical judgments for those who learned their second language late (LAHP) versus those who learned their second I anguage early (EAHP).

With permission from Wartenburger, I., Heekern, H. R., Abutalebi, J., Cappa, S. F., Billringer, A., & Perani, D. (2003). Early setting of grammatical processing in the bilingual brain. Neuron, 37, 159–170. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.