Bilingual language entropy influences executive functions through functional connectivity and signal variability

X Li, KK Ng, JJY Wong, JW Lee, JH Zhou, WQ Yow - Brain and language, 2021 - Elsevier
How bilinguals' experience in managing multiple languages in different communicative
contexts influences the cognitive and neural aspects of executive functions remains unclear …

Individual differences in bilingual experience modulate executive control network and performance: behavioral and structural neuroimaging evidence

F Gallo, N Novitskiy, A Myachykov… - … Language and Cognition, 2021 - cambridge.org
Dual/multiple language use has been shown to affect cognition and its neural substrate,
although the replicability of such findings varies, partially due to neglecting the role of …

[HTML][HTML] Duration and extent of bilingual experience modulate neurocognitive outcomes

V DeLuca, J Rothman, E Bialystok, C Pliatsikas - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
The potential effects of bilingualism on executive control (EC) have been heavily debated.
One possible source of discrepancy in the evidence may be that bilingualism tends to be …

Moving from bilingual traits to states: Understanding cognition and language processing through moment-to-moment variation

LK Salig, JR Valdés Kroff, LR Slevc… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
The study of how bilingualism is linked to cognitive processing, including executive
functioning, has historically focused on comparing bilinguals to monolinguals across a …

[HTML][HTML] Bilingualism as a gradient measure modulates functional connectivity of language and control networks

S Sulpizio, N Del Maschio, G Del Mauro, D Fedeli… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
There is currently no agreement on which factor modulates most effectively and enduringly
brain plasticity in bilingual individuals. Grouping heterogeneous linguistic profiles under a …

Auditory processing and high task demands facilitate the bilingual executive control advantage in young adults

JR Kuipers, KH Westphal - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2021 - Elsevier
Although bilingual children and elderly have been observed to outperform monolinguals in
typical executive control tasks, this bilingual advantage is not consistently found in the young …

Fast modulation of executive function by language context in bilinguals

YJ Wu, G Thierry - Journal of Neuroscience, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Mastering two languages has been associated with enhancement in human executive
control, but previous studies of this phenomenon have exclusively relied on comparisons …

Balanced bilingualism and early age of second language acquisition as the underlying mechanisms of a bilingual executive control advantage: Why variations in …

WQ Yow, X Li - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies revealed inconsistent evidences of a bilingual advantage in executive
processing. One potential source of explanation is the multifaceted experience of the …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of neuroscience in understanding bilingual cognitive control: A commentary on “Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not …

KA Vaughn, MR Greene… - … devoted to the study of the …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The history of bilingual research has shifted from a bilingual disadvantage on general
intelligence measures (eg Peal and Lambert, 1962) to a bilingual advantage on non-verbal …

Cognitive mechanisms underlying performance differences between monolinguals and bilinguals

JG Grundy, K Timmer - Cognitive control and consequences of …, 2016 - torrossa.com
Lifelong experience with multiple languages is believed to produce a number of executive
function advantages including enhanced top-down control, improved attention, and greater …