Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science

DE Blasi, J Henrich, E Adamou, D Kemmerer… - Trends in cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
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 …

The quest for signals in noise: Leveraging experiential variation to identify bilingual phenotypes

AL Beatty-Martínez, DA Titone - Languages, 2021 - mdpi.com
Increasing evidence suggests that bilingualism does not, in itself, result in a particular
pattern of response, revealing instead a complex and multidimensional construct that is …

[HTML][HTML] Native language differences in the structural connectome of the human brain

X Wei, H Adamson, M Schwendemann, T Goucha… - Neuroimage, 2023 - Elsevier
Is the neuroanatomy of the language structural connectome modulated by the life-long
experience of speaking a specific language? The current study compared the brain white …

Justice and equity for whom? Reframing research on the “bilingual (dis) advantage”

G Luk - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The search for the existence and nonexistence of bilingual advantages and disadvantages
has become a battleground marked by polarized comments and perspectives, furthering our …

Research on bilingualism as discovery science

CA Navarro-Torres, AL Beatty-Martínez, JF Kroll… - Brain and language, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Learning and processing multiple languages: The more the easier?

J Festman - Language Learning, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review scrutinizes the evidence concerning the factors that affect the ease with which
multilinguals learn additional languages. First, I focus on language learning experiences …

It takes a village: Using network science to identify the effect of individual differences in bilingual experience for theory of mind

E Navarro, V DeLuca, E Rossi - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
An increasing amount of research has examined the effects of bilingualism on performance
in theory of mind (ToM) tasks. Bilinguals outperform monolinguals in ToM when comparing …

Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on executive function tasks far more often than chance: An updated quantitative analysis

A Yurtsever, JAE Anderson, JG Grundy - Developmental Review, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing debate regarding the effects of bilingualism on executive functions warrants a
deeper investigation into sample characteristics, and the likelihood of performance …

Bilingualism caught in a net: A new approach to understanding the complexity of bilingual experience.

P Kałamała, A Chuderski, J Szewczyk… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The growing importance of research on bilingualism in psychology and neuroscience
motivates the need for a psychometric model that can be used to understand and quantify …

[HTML][HTML] Functional neural architecture of cognitive control mediates the relationship between individual differences in bilingual experience and behaviour

F Carter, V DeLuca, K Segaert, A Mazaheri, A Krott - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Bilinguals have often, but not always, been found to outperform monolinguals on domain-
general attentional control. Inconsistent findings have been argued to stem, at least partly …