Bilingual vs. Monolingual: What's the Cerebral Difference?
blog.operationmedschool.com › home › bilingual-vsThis is due to the phenomenon of both languages essentially being ‘switched on’ in the bilingual’s brain whenever a word from a language is spoken, causing a dual side-by-side activation of two languages as opposed to one in the case of a monolingual. In simpler terms, while a monolingual being would only have one language system running in their brain while interpreting language, a bilingual would have two language systems running simultaneously, therefore illustrating the difference ...