Bilingualism: consequences for mind and brain

E Bialystok, FIM Craik, G Luk - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children's
cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging …

Does bilingualism influence cognitive aging?

TH Bak, JJ Nissan, MM Allerhand… - Annals of neurology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent evidence suggests a positive impact of bilingualism on cognition, including later
onset of dementia. However, monolinguals and bilinguals might have different baseline …

Bilingualism provides a neural reserve for aging populations

J Abutalebi, L Guidi, V Borsa, M Canini, PA Della Rosa… - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
It has been postulated that bilingualism may act as a cognitive reserve and recent
behavioral evidence shows that bilinguals are diagnosed with dementia about 4–5 years …

Bilingualism, dementia, cognitive and neural reserve

D Perani, J Abutalebi - Current opinion in neurology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Lifelong bilingualism represents a powerful cognitive reserve delaying the onset of dementia
by approximately 4 years. As to the causal mechanism, because speaking more than one …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review on the possible relationship between bilingualism, cognitive decline, and the onset of dementia

M Van den Noort, K Vermeire, P Bosch, H Staudte… - Behavioral …, 2019 - mdpi.com
A systematic review was conducted to investigate whether bilingualism has a protective
effect against cognitive decline in aging and can protect against dementia. We searched the …

[HTML][HTML] Does bilingualism protect against dementia? A meta-analysis

JAE Anderson, K Hawrylewicz, JG Grundy - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2020 - Springer
Evidence suggests that bilingualism may contribute to neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve,
allowing individuals to resist cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease …

The advantages of bilingualism debate

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 …

The effect of lifelong bilingualism on regional grey and white matter volume

RK Olsen, MM Pangelinan, C Bogulski… - Brain research, 2015 - Elsevier
Lifelong bilingualism is associated with the delayed diagnosis of dementia, suggesting
bilingual experience is relevant to brain health in aging. While the effects of bilingualism on …

[HTML][HTML] The cognitive benefits of being bilingual

V Marian, A Shook - Cerebrum: the Dana forum on brain science, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Editor's note: Today, more of the world's population is bilingual or multilingual than
monolingual. In addition to facilitating cross-cultural communication, this trend also positively …

The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.

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 …