The words “bilingual” and “bilingualism” have many different meanings depending on the
context they are used in. They can include the knowledge and use of two or more …

Meuter and Allport (1999) were among the first to implicate an inhibitory mechanism in
bilingual language control. In their study, bilinguals took longer to name a number in the L1 …

Growing evidence shows that executive functioning benefits from bilingual experience.
However, the nature of the mechanisms underlying this advantage remains to be clarified …

For L2-learners, confusable phonemic categories lead to ambiguous lexical representations.
Yet, learners can establish separate lexical representations for confusable categories, as …

Learning a second language influences speakers' first language, but there is great variability
in the degree of influence that speakers exhibit. We show that some of this variability is due …

It is well established in the masked translation priming literature that the priming effect is
sensitive to language direction with noncognates—namely, the priming effect is consistently …

Until now, research on bilingual auditory word recognition has been scarce, and although
most studies agree that lexical access is language-nonselective, there is less consensus …

Abstract Language non-selective lexical access in bilinguals has been established mainly
using tasks requiring explicit language processing. Here, we show that bilinguals activate …

For many centuries people who speak more than one language, that is to say second
language (L2) users, have been admired. In the 16th century an advisor to Elizabeth I of …

Abstract Language and memory are closely intertwined in the human cognitive architecture.
Language acquisition depends on successful memory encoding and retrieval; at the same …