Meta-analysis reveals a bilingual advantage that is dependent on task and age

AT Ware, M Kirkovski, JAG Lum - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Debate continues on whether a bilingual advantage exists with respect to executive
functioning. This report synthesized the results of 170 studies to test whether the bilingual …

Lexical competition in non-native spoken-word recognition

A Weber, A Cutler - Journal of memory and language, 2004 - Elsevier
Four eye-tracking experiments examined lexical competition in non-native spoken-word
recognition. Dutch listeners hearing English fixated longer on distractor pictures with names …

Juggling two languages in one mind: What bilinguals tell us about language processing and its consequences for cognition

JF Kroll, PE Dussias, CA Bogulski, JRV Kroff - Psychology of learning and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Psycholinguistics has traditionally focused on language processing in monolingual
speakers. In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase of research on …

Subcortical encoding of sound is enhanced in bilinguals and relates to executive function advantages

J Krizman, V Marian, A Shook… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Bilingualism profoundly affects the brain, yielding functional and structural changes in
cortical regions dedicated to language processing and executive function [Crinion J, et …

Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging

S Baum, D Titone - Applied psycholinguistics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

How native-like is non-native language processing?

H Clahsen, C Felser - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2006 - cell.com
Following several decades of research on native language (L1) processing, psycholinguists
have more recently begun to investigate how non-native language (L2) speakers …

Visual word recognition by bilinguals in a sentence context: evidence for nonselective lexical access.

W Duyck, E Van Assche, D Drieghe… - Journal of Experimental …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent research on bilingualism has shown that lexical access in visual word recognition by
bilinguals is not selective with respect to language. In the present study, the authors …

Bilingualism influences inhibitory control in auditory comprehension

HK Blumenfeld, V Marian - Cognition, 2011 - Elsevier
Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant
information. The present study aimed to identify how processing linguistic ambiguity during …

Is it time to leave behind the Revised Hierarchical Model of bilingual language processing after fifteen years of service?

M Brysbaert, W Duyck - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2010 - cambridge.org
The Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM) of bilingual language processing dominates current
thinking on bilingual language processing. Recently, basic tenets of the model have been …

First language activation during second language lexical processing: An investigation of lexical form, meaning, and grammatical class

G Sunderman, JF Kroll - Studies in second language acquisition, 2006 - cambridge.org
This study places the predictions of the bilingual interactive activation model (Dijkstra & Van
Heuven, 1998) and the revised hierarchical model (Kroll & Stewart, 1994) in the same …