Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that
tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have …

Infants growing up in bilingual homes learn two languages simultaneously without apparent
confusion or delay. However, the mechanisms that support this remarkable achievement …

Three studies examined the hypothesis that bilinguals can more rapidly disengage attention
from irrelevant information than monolinguals by investigating the impact of previous trial …

In an implicit phonological priming paradigm, deaf bimodal bilinguals made semantic
relatedness decisions for pairs of English words. Half of the semantically unrelated pairs had …

This chapter reviews research on bilingualism and multilingualism discussing working
memory, the multilingual lexicon, language control and lexical selection, and the cognitive …

Previous research on bilingual language switching and lexical access has demonstrated a
consistent reaction time cost associated with producing a switched token. While some …

The present study investigated processing differences between young adults who were
English monolinguals or English-French bilinguals on a task-and language-switching …

Although bilingual learners represent the linguistic majority, much less is known about their
lexical processing in comparison with monolingual learners. In the current study, bilingual …

When asked to translate utterances, people might merely make sure that their translations
have the same meaning as the source, but they might also maintain aspects of sentence …

This is the first attempt of empirical investigation of language mediated concept activation
(LMCA) in bilingual memory as a cognitive mechanism facilitating divergent thinking …