Bilingual language processing: A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies

S Sulpizio, N Del Maschio, D Fedeli… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Notwithstanding rising interest, a coherent picture of the brain's representation of two
languages has not yet been achieved. In the present meta-analysis we analysed a large …

Clear theories are needed to interpret differences: Perspectives on the bilingual advantage debate

A de Bruin, AS Dick, M Carreiras - Neurobiology of Language, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
The heated debate regarding bilingual cognitive advantages remains ongoing. While there
are many studies supporting positive cognitive effects of bilingualism, recent meta-analyses …

Not all bilinguals are the same: A meta-analysis of the moral foreign language effect

M Stankovic, B Biedermann, T Hamamura - Brain and Language, 2022 - Elsevier
Emerging evidence shows bilinguals employ different decision-making strategies in their
foreign language compared to their native language (known as the Foreign Language …

[HTML][HTML] Bilingualism as a slice of Swiss cheese

E Bialystok - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the global population, an intense discussion began
about how best to contain the spread of the deadly virus. Debates ensued about whether …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood

C Pliatsikas, L Meteyard, J Veríssimo, V DeLuca… - Brain Structure and …, 2020 - Springer
Bilingualism affects the structure of the brain in adults, as evidenced by experience-
dependent grey and white matter changes in brain structures implicated in language …

Active bilingualism delays the onset of mild cognitive impairment

M Calabria, M Hernández, G Cattaneo, A Suades… - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Lifelong bilingualism may contribute to cognitive reserve (CR) in neurodegenerative
diseases as shown by a delay of the age at symptom onset in bilinguals with Alzheimer's …

The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks

D Fedeli, N Del Maschio, S Sulpizio, J Rothman… - Brain and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bilingualism is a natural laboratory for studying whether the brain's structural connectome is
influenced by different aspects of language experience. However, evidence on how distinct …

[HTML][HTML] Add bilingualism to the Mix: L2 proficiency modulates the effect of cognitive reserve proxies on executive performance in healthy aging

F Gallo, J Kubiak, A Myachykov - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We investigated the contribution of bilingual experience to the development of cognitive
reserve (CR) when compared with other, traditionally more researched, CR proxies, in a …

Individual differences in bilingual experience modulate executive control network and performance: behavioral and structural neuroimaging evidence

F Gallo, N Novitskiy, A Myachykov… - … Language and Cognition, 2021 - cambridge.org
Dual/multiple language use has been shown to affect cognition and its neural substrate,
although the replicability of such findings varies, partially due to neglecting the role of …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals

C Quartarone, E Navarrete, S Budisavljević… - Brain and language, 2022 - Elsevier
We used diffusion magnetic resonance imaging tractography to investigate the effect of
language modality on the anatomy of the ventral white matter language network by …