IntroductionThe brain has always had an extraordinary ability to adapt to its circumstances, an evolutionary advantage, combined with the human capacity for reasoning and logic, has made it a rather versatile organ. Research into neuroplasticity and non-synaptic plasticity can lead to a better understanding of how the brain adapts and how a normal brain functions. Neuroplasticity has the potential to influence brain mechanisms related to emotional, motivational, and cognitive processes (Crocker, Heller, Warren, O'Hare, Infantolino, & Miller, 2012). Another functional and extraordinary capacity of the brain is language. Language can very much define the way we think, yet after a short period of time we find it very difficult to learn new languages. It is certainly not impossible to learn a second or third language but it seems that plasticity manifests itself more with children (Giannakopoulou, Uther & Ylinen, 2013). Perhaps because plasticity may occur during developmental stages where language development takes place or younger brains simply have more plastic potential. Understanding how plasticity and bilingualism are interrelated can give us a better picture of how the brain handles language, how these stimuli cause neuroplasticity, and how such plasticity can influence language function. Does developing bilingual skills cause brain plasticity? First we need to try to establish a causal relationship so we know that it is the stimuli of bilingualism that cause plasticity. One journal seeks to determine whether bilingualism can promote experience-dependent plasticity, similar to how musicians develop heightened processing in subcortical structures (Krizman, Marian, Shook, Skoe & Kraus, 2012). Specifically...... half of the article ......ps between cognition, emotion and motivation: implications for intervention and neuroplasticity in psychopathology. Frontiers In Human Neuroscience, 7doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00261Giannakopoulou, A., Uther, M., & Ylinen, S. (2013). Greater plasticity in spoken language acquisition for child learners: Evidence from phonics training studies in child and adult learners of English. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 29(2), 201-218. doi: 10.1177/0265659012467473 Krizman, J., Marian, V., Shook, A., Skoe, E., & Kraus, N. (2012). Subcortical coding of sound is enhanced in bilinguals and relates to executive function benefits. PNAS, 109(20), 7877-7881. doi:10.1073Pallier, C. (2003). Brain imaging of linguistic plasticity in adopted adults: can a second language replace the first? Cerebral Cortex, 13(2), 155-161. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/cercor/13.2.155