Shifting gear in the study of the bilingual advantage: Language switching examined as a possible moderator

E Woumans, S Van Herck, E Struys - Behavioral Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The bilingual advantage is a heavily debated topic in research on bilingualism. The current
study further investigated one specific aspect of bilingualism proposed to be a determining …

Do bilinguals outperform monolinguals in switching tasks? Contrary evidence for nonlinguistic and linguistic switching tasks

E Mas-Herrero, D Adrover-Roig, M Ruz… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
The benefits of bilingualism in executive functions are highly debated. Even so, in switching
tasks, these effects seem robust, although smaller than initially thought (;). By handling two …

Language switching frequency in bilinguals is inconsistently linked to executive functioning

HA Johnson, O Sawi, KR Paap - Annual Meeting of the Cognitive …, 2015 - oliversawi.com
Language switching may rely on language-specific mechanisms. If true, then language
switching should not enhance general inhibitory control or the ability to switch tasks. The …

Bilingual Language Switching and Executive Functions

J Jylkkä - 2017 - doria.fi
According to the Bilingual Executive Advantage (BEA) hypothesis, bilinguals outperform
monolinguals in executive functions (EF). This has been suggested to stem from life-long …

Is there a relationship between language switching and executive functions in bilingualism? Introducing a within group analysis approach

A Soveri, A Rodriguez-Fornells, M Laine - Frontiers in Psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Several studies have suggested a bilingual advantage in executive functions, presumably
due to bilinguals' massive practice with language switching that requires executive …

Voluntary language switching in the context of bilingual aphasia

N Grunden, G Piazza, C García-Sánchez… - Behavioral …, 2020 - mdpi.com
As studies of bilingual language control (BLC) seek to explore the underpinnings of
bilinguals' abilities to juggle two languages, different types of language switching tasks have …

Ecological validity in bilingualism research and the bilingual advantage

E Blanco-Elorrieta, L Pylkkänen - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Traditional research in bilingualism has consistently found that switching languages is
effortful, placing demands on neural systems of cognitive control. This finding runs counter to …

Trilinguals' language switching: A strategic and flexible account

M Mosca - Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The goal of this study was to determine how trilinguals select the language they intend to
use in a language switching context. Two accounts are examined:(a) a language-specific …

Symmetries of bilingual language switch costs in conflicting versus non-conflicting contexts

C Liu, LU Jiao, Z Wang, M Wang, R Wang… - Bilingualism: Language …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Previous studies have demonstrated that language switching in bilinguals can be affected
by a number of variables, including the processing context. Here, we used a modified …

When L1 suffers

I Christoffels, L Ganushchak, W La Heij - Cognitive control and …, 2016 - torrossa.com
Bilingual language selection and control is often studied in the language switching
paradigm, where participants switch between producing words in one or the other language …