Language diversity across home and work contexts differentially impacts age-and menopause-related declines in cognitive control in healthy females.

A Duval, AL Beatty-Martínez, S Pasvanis… - Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Menopause is associated with declines in cognitive control. However, there is individual
variability in the slope of this decline. Recent work suggests that indices of cognitive control …

Bilingual experience and executive control over the adult lifespan: The role of biological sex

S Subramaniapillai, MN Rajah, S Pasvanis… - Bilingualism: Language …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We investigated whether bilingual language experience over the lifespan impacts women
and men in a manner that differentially buffers against age-related declines in executive …

Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging

S Baum, D Titone - Applied psycholinguistics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

Disentangling the effect of bilingualism in attention from socioeconomic influences: A lifespan approach

AK Ladas - 2013 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
There is growing evidence that brain structure and cognitive performance can be moulded
from various forms of experience. Bilingualism seems to form such an experience, with …

Neuroplasticity across the lifespan and aging effects in bilinguals and monolinguals

N Del Maschio, S Sulpizio, F Gallo, D Fedeli… - Brain and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Evidence that bilingualism protects against age-related neurocognitive decline is mixed.
One relatively consistent finding is that bilingual seniors have greater grey matter volume …

Extensive experience with multiple languages may not buffer age-related declines in executive function

KM Weyman, M Shake, JL Redifer - Experimental Aging Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background Whether bilingualism can improve aspects of cognitive function in late
adulthood is hotly debated. A few limited studies have reported that bilingualism may …

The Association Between Multilingualism and Executive Function in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: Results from the Baseline Comprehensive Cohort

N Winch - 2021 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Background: Identifying factors that protect against cognitive impairment is key to healthy
aging. Cognitive stimulation through multilingualism may be protective against cognitive …

Bilingualism, language, and aging

M Goral - Memory, language, and bilingualism: Theoretical and …, 2013 - books.google.com
Older adults often complain about age-related changes, including difficulty retrieving words
during language production and comprehending complex sentences during language …

Bilingualism and aging

A Ardila, E Ramos - … on Communication Disorders and Sciences in …, 2010 - ASHA
Language mediates not only the social relationship systems, but also the control of cognitive
processes. Potential differences between bilinguals and monolinguals in age-associated …

Does bilingualism protect against cognitive aging? Methodological issues in research on bilingualism, cognitive reserve, and dementia incidence

CWM Watson, JJ Manly… - Linguistic approaches to …, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
Recent studies of bilingualism as a protective factor in cognitive aging have reported
conflicting findings, and researchers have begun to explore the methodological …