The ups and downs of bilingualism: A review of the literature on executive control using event-related potentials

K Antoniou - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023 - Springer
Whether bilingualism enhances executive control (EC) is controversial. This article reviews
24 studies on the bilingual EC effect using event-related potentials (ERPs). It evaluates the …

Sequential congruency effects reveal differences in disengagement of attention for monolingual and bilingual young adults

JG Grundy, A Chung-Fat-Yim, DC Friesen, L Mak… - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Three studies examined the hypothesis that bilinguals can more rapidly disengage attention
from irrelevant information than monolinguals by investigating the impact of previous trial …

Referring expressions and executive functions in bilingualism

A Sorace - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
Recent research has shown that the bilingual experience has positive effects on non-
linguistic cognition (;) but also negative effects on language, for example on vocabulary size …

Bilinguals have more complex EEG brain signals in occipital regions than monolinguals

JG Grundy, JAE Anderson, E Bialystok - NeuroImage, 2017 - Elsevier
Brain signal complexity increases with development and is associated with better cognitive
outcomes in older age. Research has also shown that bilinguals are able to stave off …

The relation between brain signal complexity and task difficulty on an executive function task

JG Grundy, RM Barker, JAE Anderson, JM Shedden - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
On a daily basis, we constantly deal with changing environmental cues and perceptual
conflicts and as such, our brains must flexibly adapt to current demands in order to act …

Post‐conflict slowing effects in monolingual and bilingual children

JG Grundy, A Keyvani Chahi - Developmental science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research has shown that bilingual children outperform their monolingual peers on
a wide variety of tasks measuring executive functions (EF). However, recent failures to …

After-effects without monitoring costs: The impact of prospective memory instructions on task switching performance

B Meier, A Rey-Mermet - Acta Psychologica, 2018 - Elsevier
In a prospective memory task, verbal instructions are used to define an appropriate target
event as retrieval cue. This target event is typically part of an ongoing activity and is thus …

After-effects of responding to activated and deactivated prospective memory target events differ depending on processing overlaps.

B Meier, M Cottini - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Responding to a prospective memory task in the course of an ongoing activity requires
switching tasks, which typically comes at a cost in performing the ongoing activity. Similarly …

Monolinguals and bilinguals disengage attention differently following conflict and errors: Evidence from ERPs

JG Grundy, E Bialystok - Brain and Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Monolingual and bilingual young adults performed a task-switching experiment while EEG
was recorded to investigate how bilingualism affects cognitive control following conflict …

冲突水平的变化诱发冲突适应

张孟可, 李晴, 尹首航, 陈安涛 - 心理学报, 2021 - journal.psych.ac.cn
冲突适应是重要的认知控制现象, 反映了认知控制的动态过程. 然而, 目前为止对于冲突水平上的
差异能否诱发冲突适应尚不清楚. 本研究采用字母Flanker 的变式, 通过改变目标 …