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 …

There is currently no agreement on which factor modulates most effectively and enduringly
brain plasticity in bilingual individuals. Grouping heterogeneous linguistic profiles under a …

Swearing produces effects that are not observed with other forms of language use. Thus,
swearing is powerful. It generates a range of distinctive outcomes: physiological, cognitive …

Swearing, cursing, expletives–all these terms are used to describe the utterance of taboo
words. Studies show that swearing makes up around 0.5% of the daily spoken content …

This study examined whether the Foreign-Language effect, an increase in bilinguals' rate of
rational decisions to moral dilemmas in their foreign versus their native language, is …

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 …

We propose the fuzzy lexical representations (FLRs) hypothesis that regards fuzziness as a
core property of nonnative (L2) lexical representations (LRs). Fuzziness refers to imprecise …

The moral foreign language effect (MFLE) describes how people's decisions may change
when a moral dilemma is presented in either their native (NL) or foreign language (FL) …

This study examines the distinction between knowing the meaning of a word and
experiencing the feelings associated with it. We collected affective ratings for a set of …

Learning and learning to regulate more than one language is shown to have an impact on
the structural connectivity of the brain in networks related to language processing and …