title: The Bilingual Mind: Thinking, Feeling and Speaking in Two Languages (Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics)
author: Rafael Art Javier
description: From the reviews: Provides a fresh perspective on crosscultural literature by placing a renewed importance on the role that bilingual experience plays in perception, memory, intelligence, learning and emotional formation. This book is mainly directed at therapists and education professionals.  SLA researchers can benefit from an innovative perspective to the bilingual mind that interweaves psycholinguistic issues with questions of identity and culture.  information about the languages spoken in the United States and an excellent overview of tests to assess less proficient and less acculturated bilinguals. (Nuria Sagarra, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 31 (3), September, 2009)
zlib_text: Brain and Language 70, 347–363 (1999)
  Article ID brln.1999.2186, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on
  Convergent Cortical Representation of Semantic Processing
  in Bilinguals
  Judy Illes, Wendy S. Francis, John E. Desmond, John D. E. Gabrieli,
  Gary H. Glover, Russell Poldrack, Christine J. Lee,
  and Anthony D. Wagner
  Stanford University
  This study examined whether semantic processes in two languages (English and
  Spanish) are mediated by a common neural system in ﬂuent bilinguals who acquired
  their second language years after acquiring their ﬁrst language. Functional magnetic
  resonance imaging was performed while bilingual participants made semantic and
  nonsemantic decisions about words in Spanish and English. There was greater acti-
  vation for semantic relative to nonsemantic decisions in left and right frontal regions,
  with greater left frontal activation. The locations of activations were similar for
  both languages, and no differences were found when semantic decisions for 