No single purported factor has been found to consistently explain differences in cognitive
control (CC) performance among bilinguals, and researchers have begun to account for …

Cognitive control-eg the abilities to pay attention, to ignore irrelevant input, and to switch
between tasks-has received much attention in recent literature. Since both of their …

While several studies have shown a bilingual advantage in cognitive control, others have
refuted such findings, leading to debates regarding the existence of bilingual benefits. The …

The Stroop task has become a popular paradigm in investigations of bilingual cognitive
control. While several studies show a cognitive control advantage for bilinguals, recent …

The Stroop task in its many variations has been used in fields such as psychology,
linguistics, and neuroscience to examine questions regarding the automaticity of reading …

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant
information and on overall speed during cognitive control tasks. Here, monolinguals' and …

We examined the impact of bilingualism as a construct of both language usage and
language proficiency on the effectiveness of cognitive control. In particular, we asked …

Executive control abilities and lexical access speed in Stroop performance were
investigated in English monolinguals and two groups of bilinguals (English–Chinese and …

Recent studies revealed inconsistent evidences of a bilingual advantage in executive
processing. One potential source of explanation is the multifaceted experience of the …

Bilinguals have been shown to be less susceptible to Stroop interference in their first
language than monolinguals, though the cause is currently being debated. In two …