The decline of cognitive skills throughout healthy or pathological aging can be slowed down
by experiences which foster cognitive reserve (CR). Recently, some studies on Alzheimer's …

Over the last decade, research on multilingualism has grown and has provided researchers
with new insights into the mechanisms at work in the multilingual brain. While some studies …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

What role does domain-general cognitive control play in understanding linguistic input?
Although much evidence has suggested that domain-general cognitive control and working …

Language representation in the bilingual brain is the result of many factors, of which age of
appropriation (AoA) and proficiency of the second language (L2) are probably the most …

Complex cognitive processes, including language, rely on multiple mental operations that
are carried out by several large-scale functional networks in the frontal, temporal, and …

Language comprehension engages a cortical network of left frontal and temporal regions.
Activity in this network is language-selective, showing virtually no modulation by …

This study compared how lexical quality (vocabulary and decoding) and executive control
(working memory and inhibition) predict reading comprehension directly as well as …

The multilingual brain implements mechanisms that serve to select the appropriate
language as a function of the communicative environment. Engaging these mechanisms on …

In the present study, we explored how Age of Acquisition (AoA) of L2 affected brain
structures in bilingual individuals. Thirty-six native English speakers who were bilingual …