It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some
extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep …

Bilingualism was once thought to result in cognitive disadvantages, but research in recent
decades has demonstrated that experience with two (or more) languages confers a bilingual …

There is considerable debate about whether bilingual children have an advantage in
executive functioning relative to monolingual children. In the current meta-analysis, we …

Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

Dual language exposure and bilingualism are relatively common experiences for children.
The present review set out to synthesize the existing research on cognitive development in …

Whether acquiring a second language affords any general advantages to executive function
has been a matter of fierce scientific debate for decades. If being bilingual does have …

Whether bilingual children outperform monolingual children on visuospatial and verbal
working memory tests was investigated. In addition, relations among bilingual proficiency …

One hundred and seventy-five children who were 6-years old were assigned to one of four
groups that differed in socioeconomic status (SES; working class or middle class) and …