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

This chapter considers the consequences of bilingualism for planning speech in each of the
bilingual's two languages. Two accounts are contrasted of bilingual language production …

Noun translation equivalents that share orthographic and semantic features, called
“cognates”, are generally recognized faster than translation equivalents without such …

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 …

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

Research supports the claim that, when understanding language, people perform mental
simulation using those parts of the brain which support sensation, action, and emotion. A …

The current study investigated whether Russian–English bilinguals activate knowledge of
Russian when reading English sentences. Russian and English share only a few letters, but …

Formal and semantic overlap across languages plays an important role in bilingual
language processing systems. In the present study, Japanese (first language; L1)–English …

In this study we investigated the availability of non-target language semantic features in
bilingual speech processing. We recorded EEG from Dutch–English bilinguals who listened …