Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

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 …

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant
information and on overall speed during cognitive control tasks. Here, monolinguals' and …

We investigated whether individual differences in inhibitory control relate to bilingual spoken
word recognition. While their eye movements were monitored, native English and native …

In two picture-naming experiments we examined whether bilinguals co-activate the non-
target language during word production in the target language. The pictures were presented …

Previous research suggests executive function (EF) advantages among bilinguals compared
to monolingual peers, and these advantages are generally attributed to experience …

Bilingual speakers often have less language experience compared to monolinguals as a
result of speaking two languages and/or a later age of acquisition of the second language …

Lexical Processing and Second Language Acquisition provides a comprehensive overview
of research on second language lexical processing, integrating converging research and …

Recent evidence demonstrates that American Sign Language (ASL) signs are active during
print word recognition in deaf bilinguals who are highly proficient in both ASL and English. In …

Behavioral research suggests that monolinguals and bilinguals differ in how they manage
within-language phonological competition when listening to language. The current study …