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Overview

Jubin Abutalebi is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy, where the research focuses primarily on the neurobiological and cognitive aspects of language and bilingualism. Their work spans across the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with considerable emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

Their research covers diverse subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as language and linguistics. Central topics addressed by Abutalebi include the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, language, metaphor, and cognition, and language development and disorders. Additionally, their studies extend into dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, and categorization, perception, and language.

Recent publications showcase a range of investigations into language processing and cognitive effects of bilingualism. Key papers include:

  • Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect (2022), published in Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Bilingualism and Aging: Implications for (Delaying) Neurocognitive Decline (2022), published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn't, and What It Can Be (2021), published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks (2021), published in Brain and Language
  • Cognitive and brain reserve in bilinguals: field overview and explanatory mechanisms (2020), published in Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science

Abutalebi frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field, including:

  • Nicola Del Maschio
  • Federico Gallo
  • Simone Sulpizio
  • Andriy Myachykov
  • Yury Shtyrov

Their work is regularly published in journals such as Bilingualism Language and Cognition, Brain and Language, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, and Language and Cognition. These venues highlight the interdisciplinary nature of their research and its relevance to both language sciences and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Language control in bilinguals: The adaptive control hypothesis

    David W. Green;Jubin Abutalebi

  • Bilingual language production: The neurocognition of language representation and control

    Jubin Abutalebi;David Green

  • Early Setting of Grammatical Processing in the Bilingual Brain

    Isabell Wartenburger;Hauke R. Heekeren;Hauke R. Heekeren;Jubin Abutalebi;Stefano F. Cappa

  • The neural basis of first and second language processing

    Daniela Perani;Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi

  • Bilingualism Tunes the Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Conflict Monitoring

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa;David W. Green;Mireia Hernandez

  • Neural aspects of second language representation and language control.

    Jubin Abutalebi

  • Control mechanisms in bilingual language production: Neural evidence from language switching studies

    Jubin Abutalebi;David W. Green

  • The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high-proficient bilinguals: an fMRI study during verbal fluency

    Daniela Perani;Jubin Abutalebi;Eraldo Paulesu;Simona Brambati

  • Neuroimaging of language control in bilinguals: neural adaptation and reserve

    Jubin Abutalebi;David W. Green

  • Language Control and Lexical Competition in Bilinguals: An Event-Related fMRI Study

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jean Marie Annoni;Jean Marie Annoni;Ivan Zimine;Alan J. Pegna;Alan J. Pegna

  • The bilingual brain as revealed by functional neuroimaging

    Jubin Abutalebi;Stefano F. Cappa;Daniela Perani

  • Cognitive control for language switching in bilinguals: A quantitative meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies

    Gigi Luk;David W. Green;Jubin Abutalebi;Cheryl Grady

  • Language proficiency modulates the engagement of cognitive control areas in multilinguals

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Pasquale A. Della Rosa;Guosheng Ding;Brendan Weekes

  • The impact of bilingualism on brain reserve and metabolic connectivity in Alzheimer's dementia.

    Daniela Perani;Mohsen Farsad;Tommaso Ballarini;Francesca Lubian

  • The Neural Cost of the Auditory Perception of Language Switches: An Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Bilinguals

    Jubin Abutalebi;Simona M. Brambati;Jean Marie Annoni;Andrea Moro

  • Bilingualism provides a neural reserve for aging populations.

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Lucia Guidi;Virginia Borsa;Matteo Canini

  • The role of the left putamen in multilingual language production.

    Jubin Abutalebi;Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa;Anna Kaarina Castro Gonzaga;Roland Keim

  • The neuroprotective effects of bilingualism upon the inferior parietal lobule: A Structural Neuroimaging Study in Aging Chinese Bilinguals

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Matteo Canini;Matteo Canini;Pasquale A. Della Rosa;David W. Green

  • Do subcortical structures control ‘language selection’ in polyglots? evidence from pathological language mixing

    Jubin Abutalebi;Antonio Miozzo;Stefano F. Cappa

  • Bilingual aphasia and language control: a follow-up fMRI and intrinsic connectivity study.

    Jubin Abutalebi;Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa;Marco Tettamanti;David W. Green

  • Bilingualism protects anterior temporal lobe integrity in aging

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Matteo Canini;Matteo Canini;Pasquale A. Della Rosa;Lo Ping Sheung

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano F. Cappa
Stefano F. Cappa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Brendan S. Weekes
Brendan S. Weekes University of Hong Kong
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Jean-Marie Annoni
Jean-Marie Annoni University of Fribourg
Marco Tettamanti
Marco Tettamanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Peter Mariën
Peter Mariën Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Elise Houdayer
Elise Houdayer San Raffaele Hospital
Alan J. Pegna
Alan J. Pegna University of Queensland
Letizia Leocani
Letizia Leocani University of Milan

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