Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

No two bilinguals are the same. Differences in bilingual experiences can affect language-
related processes but have also been proposed to modulate executive functioning …

A popular goal in psychological science is to understand human cognition and behavior in
the 'real-world.'In contrast, researchers have typically conducted their research in …

To achieve fluent language processing as a bilingual, a dominant theoretical framework
assumes that the nontarget language is inhibited. This assumption is based on several …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions.
Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged …

An important aim of research on bilingualism is to understand how the brain adapts to the
demands of using more than one language. In this paper, we argue that pursuing such an …

While several reviews provide an in-depth discussion on reactive language control, which is
the language control process that is initiated when the non-target language disrupts the …

Two seemingly counterintuitive phenomena–asymmetrical language switch costs and the
reversed language dominance effect–prove to be particularly controversial in the literature …

The debate on possible cognitive advantages bilinguals have over monolinguals continues
to occupy the research community. There is an ever-growing research body focusing on …