Bilingual Minds - Ellen Bialystok, Fergus IM Craik, David W. Green, Tamar H. Gollan, 2009
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This article addresses key topics in cognitive aging, intending to provide the reader with a
brief overview of the current state of research in this growing, multidisciplinary field. A …

This study investigated correspondence between different measures of bilingual language
proficiency contrasting self-report, proficiency interview, and picture naming skills. Fifty-two …

Ninety-six participants, who were younger (20 years) or older (68 years) adults and either
monolingual or bilingual, completed tasks assessing working memory, lexical retrieval, and …

The “weaker links” hypothesis proposes that bilinguals are disadvantaged relative to
monolinguals on speaking tasks because they divide frequency-of-use between two …

In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that bilingualism may cause a linguistic
disadvantage in lexical access even for bilinguals' first and dominant language. To this …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

We investigated the consequences of bilingualism for verbal fluency by comparing
bilinguals to monolinguals, and dominant versus non-dominant-language fluency. In …

The tip-of-the-tongue state (TOT) is the feeling that accompanies temporary inaccessibility of
an item that a person is trying to retrieve. TOTs have been studied experimentally since the …

In this article we discuss the role of desirable difficulties in vocabulary learning from two
perspectives, one having to do with identifying conditions of learning that impose initial …