Society for Neuroscience Jun 15 2026 In a new  JNeurosci  paper, Xuanyi Chen and Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, from New York University, explored whether Spanish–English speakers use the same or different brain mechanisms to speak each language.  The researchers used a noninvasive neuroimaging technique while participants spoke singular and plural forms of nouns in Spanish and English. The bilingual speakers used the same group of brain areas to adjust words to their grammatical context (for example,