Silent word reading leads to the activation of orthographic (spelling), semantic (meaning), as
well as phonological (sound) information. For bilinguals, native language information can …

This study investigated the time course of activation of orthographic information in spoken
word recognition with two visual world eye-tracking experiments in a task where second …

A considerable amount of research has been devoted to exploring how bilinguals
accommodate their languages. Since it has long been assumed that the native language …

Purpose: Recent research has provided support for linguistic coactivation, the view that the
two languages of a bilingual are simultaneously active. Importantly, even if the system is …

It has long been debated whether speech processing remains flexible in adulthood. This
thesis contributes to our understanding of this question by investigating bilingual speech …

Auditory sensation is often thought of as a bottom-up process, yet the brain exerts top-down
control to affect how and what we hear. We report the discovery that the magnitude of top …

Dual language experience has typically been shown to improve various executive control
functions. We investigated with event-related brain potentials (ERPs) recorded from early …

Objective: To characterize the hemispheric processing of metaphors in bilinguals compared
with monolinguals and to determine the role of language proficiency in hemispheric …

Empirical evidence has supported the idea that the bilingual advantage is a question of
nuanced differences between bilinguals and monolinguals. In this article, I review findings …

Abstract In the United States, approximately 1 in 5 children enters school with a first
language other than English (US census data). The impact that this has on learning and …