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 …
E Bialystok - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …
M Antoniou - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
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 …
CJ Lowe, I Cho, SF Goldsmith… - Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
There is considerable debate about whether bilingual children have an advantage in executive functioning relative to monolingual children. In the current meta-analysis, we …
JG Grundy - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2020 - Springer
Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …
R Barac, E Bialystok, DC Castro, M Sanchez - Early childhood research …, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …