Learning and using an additional language is shown to have an impact on the structure and function of the brain, including in regions involved in cognitive control and the connections …
Bilingualism has been shown to affect the structure of the brain, including cortical regions related to language. Less is known about subcortical structures, such as the basal ganglia …
A series of discoveries in the past two decades has changed the way we think about bilingualism and its implications for language and cognition. One is that both of the …
Here, we review the neural correlates of cognitive control associated with bilingualism. We demonstrate that lifelong practice managing two languages orchestrates global changes to …
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 use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently, bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition …
D D'Souza, D Brady, JX Haensel… - Royal Society open …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bilinguals purportedly outperform monolinguals in non-verbal tasks of cognitive control (the 'bilingual advantage'). The most common explanation is that managing two languages …
A Stocco, B Yamasaki, R Natalenko… - International Journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Individuals who develop bilingually typically outperform monolinguals on tests of executive functions. This advantage likely reflects enhanced prefrontal function, but the mechanisms …
The goal of the present review is to discuss recent cognitive neuroscientific findings concerning bilingualism. Three interrelated questions about the bilingual brain are …