How does bilingualism modify cognitive function? Attention to the mechanism

E Bialystok, FIM Craik - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2022 - Springer
It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

Scoping review of research practices in the investigation of bilingual effects on inhibition and attention in young people

AJ Privitera, B Weekes - International Journal of Bilingualism, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: The aim of this scoping review is to curate and summarize research
methodologies used to assess the effects of bilingualism on inhibition and attention in young …

The agent preference in visual event apprehension

A Isasi-Isasmendi, C Andrews, M Flecken, I Laka… - Open Mind, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms
of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in …

The effects of bilingualism on children's cross-situational word learning under different variability conditions

K Crespo, H Vlach, M Kaushanskaya - Journal of experimental child …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the current study, we examined the separate and combined effects of exemplar and
speaker variability on monolingual and bilingual children's cross-situational word learning …

The effect of bilingualism on executive functions when languages are similar: a comparison between Hungarian–Serbian and Slovak–Serbian young adult bilinguals

A Perovic, D Filipović Đurđević, S Halupka-Rešetar - Memory & Cognition, 2023 - Springer
Among the factors argued to contribute to a bilingual advantage in executive function (EF),
the combination of languages spoken by the bilingual is often overlooked. In this study, we …

Does language context impact the neural correlates of executive control in monolingual and multilingual young adults?

A Chung-Fat-Yim, GJ Poarch, KJ Comishen… - Brain and language, 2021 - Elsevier
Some previous studies have shown that creating a language context in which words from
both languages are interspersed into a flanker task improves executive control performance …

How bilingualism modulates selective attention in children

J Phelps, A Attaheri, M Bozic - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
There is substantial evidence that learning and using multiple languages modulates
selective attention in children. The current study investigated the mechanisms that drive this …

A Novel Computationally Efficient Approach for Exploring Neural Entrainment to Continuous Speech Stimuli Incorporating Cross-Correlation

L Do Anh Quan, L Thi Trang, H Joo, D Kim, J Woo - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
A linear system identification technique has been widely used to track neural entrainment in
response to continuous speech stimuli. Although the approach of the standard regularization …

The relationship between speech in noise perception and auditory working memory capacity in monolingual and bilingual adults

G Shokuhifar, M Javanbakht, M Vahedi… - … Journal of Audiology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Speech-in-noise perception is dependent on the interaction between sensory and
cognitive processes. One factor that can relate to both processes is bilingualism. This study …

Theories and models in cognitive bilingualism

J Festman, GJ Poarch - The Routledge Handbook of Translation …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
In this chapter, the authors use the term cognitive bilingualism to refer to a merge of two
research traditions: the psycholinguistics of bilingualism; and work on the psychological …