Much of what is known about the outcome of second language acquisition and bilingualism
can be summarized in terms of inter-individual variability, plasticity and age. The present …

Traditional research in bilingualism has consistently found that switching languages is
effortful, placing demands on neural systems of cognitive control. This finding runs counter to …

The 21st century has seen a strong upward trajectory in empirical research on the multiple
benefits that foreign language/world language learning and bilingualism can afford to both …

Diffusion tensor imaging was used to compare white matter structure between American
monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual adults living in the United States. In the bilingual …

Language can have a powerful effect on how people experience events. Here, we examine
how the languages people speak guide attention and influence what they remember from a …

The bilingual advantage hypothesis contends that the management of two languages in the
brain is carried out through domain‐general mechanisms, and that bilinguals possess a …

Cognitive advantages for bilinguals have inconsistently been observed in different
populations, with different operationalisations of bilingualism, cognitive performance, and …

The protective effects of multiple language knowledge on the maintenance of cognitive
functions in older adults have been discussed controversially, among others, because of …

The ongoing debate regarding the effects of bilingualism on executive functions warrants a
deeper investigation into sample characteristics, and the likelihood of performance …

Recent theories propose that language-switching in bilinguals influences executive control.
We investigated whether switching behaviour, shaped by the bilingual's interactional context …