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In a typical cognitive experiment, you may be shown an image of a dog andasked to name it. As a monolingual, you have several options: “dog” “poodle”“canine”, and so on. As a bilingual, however, your options are doubled. Consequently, how bilinguals select and utter the correct word for a particularobject has been carefully studied in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. Many neuroimaging studies over the past several years have focused on thespatial aspect of this question, but other aspects, such as the developmentaltime course and differences between individuals, remain largely uninvestigated. In this article we provide a brief review of the literature, along with somepointers to new directions of research concerning individual variability and thedevelopment of lexico-semantic functions in bilinguals.
