The many shades of bilingualism: Language experiences modulate adaptations in brain structure

C Pliatsikas, V DeLuca, T Voits - Language Learning, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen an expansion in the research related to structural brain adaptations
related to the acquisition and processing of additional languages. However, the …

Bilingualism does not alter cognitive decline or dementia risk among Spanish-speaking immigrants.

LB Zahodne, PW Schofield, MT Farrell, Y Stern… - …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Clinic-based studies suggest that dementia is diagnosed at older ages in
bilinguals compared with monolinguals. The current study sought to test this hypothesis in a …

Positive cognitive effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on cerebral function: A review

C Quinteros Baumgart, SB Billick - Psychiatric Quarterly, 2018 - Springer
A review of the current literature regarding bilingualism demonstrates that bilingualism is
linked to higher levels of controlled attention and inhibition in executive control and can …

Beneficial effect of bilingualism on Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers and cognition

A Estanga, M Ecay-Torres, A Ibañez, A Izagirre… - Neurobiology of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Bilingualism as a component of cognitive reserve has been claimed to delay the onset of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, its effect on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) AD-biomarkers …

Bilingualism as a contributor to cognitive reserve: Evidence from brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

TA Schweizer, J Ware, CE Fischer, FIM Craik… - cortex, 2012 - Elsevier
Much of the research on delaying the onset of symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has
focused on pharmacotherapy, but environmental factors have also been acknowledged to …

Cognitive consequences of trilingualism

SR Schroeder, V Marian - International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: The objectives of the present research were to examine the cognitive
consequences of trilingualism and explain them relative to the cognitive consequences of …

Lifelong bilingualism maintains neural efficiency for cognitive control in aging

BT Gold, C Kim, NF Johnson, RJ Kryscio… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Recent behavioral data have shown that lifelong bilingualism can maintain youthful
cognitive control abilities in aging. Here, we provide the first direct evidence of a neural …

Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent

E Bialystok - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2009 - cambridge.org
The present paper summarizes research showing that bilingualism affects linguistic and
cognitive performance across the lifespan. The effect on linguistic performance is generally …

The effect of bilingualism on amnestic mild cognitive impairment

L Ossher, E Bialystok, FIM Craik… - … Sciences and Social …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Objectives. Previous reports have found that lifelong bilingualism is associated with a delay
in the onset of dementia, including Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type (DAT). Because …

Understanding the consequences of bilingualism for language processing and cognition

JF Kroll, E Bialystok - Journal of cognitive psychology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Contemporary research on bilingualism has been framed by two major discoveries. In the
realm of language processing, studies of comprehension and production show that …