Is bilingualism associated with better working memory capacity? A meta-analysis

C Monnier, J Boiché, P Armandon… - … Journal of Bilingual …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Due to their experience of managing two languages, it has been suggested that bilinguals
could receive more practice in the domain of working memory (WM) leading to a WM …

Bilingualism and working memory performance: Evidence from a large-scale online study

KM Lukasik, M Lehtonen, A Soveri, O Waris, J Jylkkä… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The bilingual executive advantage (BEA) hypothesis has attracted considerable research
interest, but the findings are inconclusive. We addressed this issue in the domain of working …

Bilinguals' working memory (WM) advantage and their dual language practices

E Yang - Brain sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The present study investigates a possible working memory (WM) difference between
monolingual and bilingual groups and explores the relationship between their WM …

The impact of bilingualism on working memory: A null effect on the whole may not be so on the parts

N Calvo, A Ibáñez, AM García - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Abundant research has examined the relationship between bilingualism and working
memory (WM), a system that keeps information accessible while dealing with concurrent …

Bilingualism and working memory capacity: A comprehensive meta-analysis

JG Grundy, K Timmer - Second Language Research, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that
tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have …

Working memory capacity: Is there a bilingual advantage?

I Ratiu, T Azuma - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Previous studies suggest that bilinguals have certain executive function advantages over
monolinguals. However, few studies have examined specific working memory (WM) …

The effects of age of acquisition on verbal memory in bilinguals

A Delcenserie, F Genesee - International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of age of
acquisition on verbal working memory (WM) in bilinguals. In light of previous studies that …

Are all interferences bad? Bilingual advantages in working memory are modulated by varying demands for controlled processing

H Yang, S Yang - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2017 - cambridge.org
We investigated bilingual advantages in general control abilities using three complex-span
tasks of working memory (WM). An operation-span task served as a baseline measure of …

Working memory in multilingual children: Is there a bilingual effect?

PMJ Engel de Abreu - Memory, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This research investigates whether early childhood bilingualism affects working memory
performance in 6-to 8-year-olds, followed over a longitudinal period of 3 years. The study …

The impact of bilingualism on executive functions and working memory in young adults

E Antón, M Carreiras, JA Duñabeitia - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A bilingual advantage in a form of a better performance of bilinguals in tasks tapping into
executive function abilities has been reported repeatedly in the literature. However, recent …