Neural activity during Stroop colour-word task performance in late proficient bilinguals: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

The aim of this study was to identify which neural substrates are engaged during manual Stroop task performance and compare the activation between 8 late proficient Macedonian-English bilinguals and 10 matched English monolinguals. During functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) adult participants performed four Stroop task conditions in a block design (control, congruent, semantically incongruent, response incongruent). Here, we focussed on differences in activation between the two groups in two contrasts: (1) the presence of task-irrelevant information that conflicts at both the response...