Bilingual minds

E Bialystok, FIM Craik, DW Green… - … science in the public …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Bilingual Minds - Ellen Bialystok, Fergus IM Craik, David W. Green, Tamar H. Gollan, 2009
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Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent

E Bialystok - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2009 - cambridge.org
The present paper summarizes research showing that bilingualism affects linguistic and
cognitive performance across the lifespan. The effect on linguistic performance is generally …

Lexical competition during second-language listening: sentence context, but not proficiency, constrains interference from the native lexicon.

CG Chambers, H Cooke - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
A spoken language eye-tracking methodology was used to evaluate the effects of sentence
context and proficiency on parallel language activation during spoken language …

New discoveries from the bilingual brain and mind across the life span: Implications for education

LA Petitto - Mind, Brain, and Education, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss the fruits of educational neuroscience research from our laboratory and show
how the typical maturational timing milestones in bilingual language acquisition provide …

Effects of bilingualism on cognitive and linguistic performance across the lifespan

E Bialystok - Streitfall Zweisprachigkeit–The Bilingualism …, 2009 - Springer
The present chapter reports the results of experiments examining the consequences of
lifelong bilingualism on cognitive and linguistic performance. Typically, research has shown …

Reduced frontal activation with increasing 2nd language proficiency

M Stein, A Federspiel, T Koenig, M Wirth, C Lehmann… - Neuropsychologia, 2009 - Elsevier
The factors influencing the degree of separation or overlap in the neuronal networks
responsible for the processing of first and second language are still subject to investigation …

Midlife use of written Japanese and protection from late life dementia

PK Crane, LE Gibbons, K Arani, V Nguyen… - …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Background: The cognitive reserve hypothesis would predict that use of written Japanese
should confer protection against dementia because of the complexity of its ideograms …

Japanese and English sentence reading comprehension and writing systems: An fMRI study of first and second language effects on brain activation

A Buchweitz, RA Mason, M Hasegawa… - Bilingualism: Language …, 2009 - cambridge.org
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to compare brain activation from
native Japanese (L1) readers reading hiragana (syllabic) and kanji (logographic) sentences …

Fundamental and gradient differences in language development

J Herschensohn - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009 - cambridge.org
This article reexamines Bley-Vroman's original (1990) and evolved (this issue) fundamental
difference hypothesis that argues that differences in path and endstate of first language …

Neural activity during Stroop colour-word task performance in late proficient bilinguals: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

KE Waldie, G Badzakova-Trajkov… - Psychology & …, 2009 - SciELO Brasil
The aim of this study was to identify which neural substrates are engaged during manual
Stroop task performance and compare the activation between 8 late proficient Macedonian …