It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

Due to their experience of managing two languages, it has been suggested that bilinguals
could receive more practice in the domain of working memory (WM) leading to a WM …

We exploit the phenomenon of cross-modal, cross-language activation to examine the
dynamics of language processing. Previous within-language work showed that seeing a …

To assess the presence of cross-linguistic influence, this study compared the processing of
Dutch sentences by English–Dutch and German–Dutch bilingual and Dutch monolingual …

Successful listening in a second language (L2) involves learning to identify the relevant
acoustic–phonetic dimensions that differentiate between words in the L2, and then use …

Second language (L2) learners must not only acquire L2 knowledge (ie vocabulary and
grammar), but they must also rapidly access this knowledge. In monolinguals, efficient …

Despite much research examining whether bilingual individuals demonstrate superior
executive function (EF) skills compared to monolinguals, the purported bilingual advantage …

“Triggered switching” is the theory that code-switching happens more often with words
connected to both languages, such as cognates. Corpus analyses have supported this …

Recent studies investigating whether bilingualism has effects on cognitive abilities beyond
language have produced mixed results, with evidence from young adults typically showing …

The current work investigates whether language dominance predicts transfer of skills across
cognitive-linguistic levels from the native language (Spanish) to the second language …