The major challenge to be addressed in this article is to
explore the functional connectivity for the language switching
in the brains of early bilinguals. We recycled the data that Lei
et al., 2014 recorded in the fMRI scans with a cohort of
students from the Chinese Korean minority, who were
requested to perform two types of property generation task
that involved language switching. These tasks were
subdivided into two-day sessions with different levels of
difficulty: situational non-translation language switching
condition (abbreviated as ‘SnT’) and focused simultaneous
translation language switching condition (abbreviated as
‘FST’). We found that the natural task based on living of
bilinguals (SnT) recruited more broadened realms of
functional connectivity than the artificial and difficult
experimental switching-translation task (FST), encompassing
in the former the bilateral nodes of both Default Mode
Network (DMN) and the other task-positive networks.
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