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 …

The bilingual advantage in children's executive functioning is not related to language status: A meta-analytic review

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 …

[PDF][PDF] No bilingual advantage for executive function: Evidence from a large sample of children in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study

AS Dick, NL Garcia, SM Pruden, WK Thompson… - doi: https://doi. org …, 2018 - files.osf.io
Learning a second language in childhood is inherently advantageous for communication.
However, parents, educators, and scientists have been interested in determining whether …

Do bilingual children have an executive function advantage? Results from inhibition, shifting, and updating tasks

GD Arizmendi, M Alt, S Gray, TP Hogan, S Green… - Language, Speech, and …, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine differences in performance between
monolingual and Spanish–English bilingual second graders (aged 7–9 years old) on …

The impact of bilingualism on executive function in adolescents

A Chung-Fat-Yim, C Himel… - International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: In early childhood and older adulthood,
bilinguals generally demonstrate better performance on executive function tasks than their …

Identifying a threshold for the executive function advantage in bilingual children

C De Cat, A Gusnanto, L Serratrice - Studies in Second Language …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The literature exploring the executive function correlates of bilingualism is vast, but to date,
few studies have concentrated on children, for whom the bilingual advantage appears even …

Testing the bilingual cognitive advantage in toddlers using the Early Executive Functions Questionnaire

K Beaudin, D Poulin-Dubois - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
The present study aims to assess differences in executive functioning between monolingual
and multilingual 23-month-old toddlers, both when dichotomizing multilingualism and …

No evidence for a bilingual executive function advantage in the ABCD study

AS Dick, NL Garcia, SM Pruden, WK Thompson… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Learning a second language in childhood is inherently advantageous for communication.
However, parents, educators and scientists have been interested in determining whether …

Is bilingualism associated with enhanced executive functioning in adults? A meta-analytic review.

M Lehtonen, A Soveri, A Laine, J Järvenpää… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

Balanced bilingualism and executive functioning in children

RC Weber, A Johnson, CA Riccio… - … : Language and Cognition, 2016 - cambridge.org
The extant research suggests bilingualism is associated with enhanced cognitive effects,
most evident in attention and executive functioning (EF). The current study examined the …