The relationship between bilingual language use and executive functions

M Lehtonen, V Fyndanis, J Jylkkä - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
There is continuing debate over whether bilingualism can confer advantages in other areas
of cognition. Bilingual language behaviours, such as switching between languages, are …

Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on executive function tasks far more often than chance: An updated quantitative analysis

A Yurtsever, JAE Anderson, JG Grundy - Developmental Review, 2023 - Elsevier
The ongoing debate regarding the effects of bilingualism on executive functions warrants a
deeper investigation into sample characteristics, and the likelihood of performance …

Modulating bilingual language production and cognitive control: how bilingual language experience matters

X Han, L Wei, R Filippi - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
The Adaptive Control Hypothesis and the Control Process Model propose that bilingual
language use in different interactional contexts requires control processes that can adapt in …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the right inferior frontal gyrus impairs bilinguals' performance in language-switching tasks

J Wu, Y Ji, H Qu, S Zuo, J Liang, J Su, Q Wang, G Yan… - Cognition, 2025 - Elsevier
It is widely accepted that bilinguals activate both languages simultaneously, even when
intending to speak only one. A prevailing theory proposes that bilinguals inhibit the …

Effects of healthy ageing and bilingualism on attention networks

R Markiewicz, F Rahman, EG Fernandes… - Bilingualism …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Both ageing and bilingualism can have positive as well as adverse cognitive effects. We
investigated their combined impact on subcomponents of attention. We used the Attention …

[HTML][HTML] On the Relationship Between Bilingualism and Mathematical Performance: A Systematic Review

AM González-Martín, R Berd-Gómez… - Education …, 2024 - mdpi.com
As part of the demands of a globalized and interconnected world, studying second
languages has become a major priority. Bilingual programs implemented in recent decades …

The (dis) engagement of different components of inhibitory control in trilingual language control.

Y Gong, K Hansen, J Chen - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Despite the worldwide prevalence of multilingualism, the knowledge of the relationship
between domain-general cognitive control and multilingual language control remains scant …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of inhibitory control and language proficiency on intra-sentential switching costs in reading comprehension

P Wang, X Huang, X Chang - Acta Psychologica, 2023 - Elsevier
Based on the inhibition account and activation account, inhibitory control and language
proficiency play big roles on language control mechanisms underlying language switching …

Bilingualism but not bidialectalism influences cognitive control among young adult Chinese–English bilinguals

Z Xie, Q Zhong - International Journal of Bilingualism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study investigates whether
bilingualism and bidialectalism influence cognitive control, and whether the two variables …

Nonverbal cognitive control training increases the efficiency of frontal-subcortical collaboration for bilingual language control

J Wu, M Zhang, Q Dang, Q Chang, Q Yuan, Z Zhang… - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Domain-general cognitive control is closely related to language control during
bilingual language production. Previous neural imaging studies have revealed a highly …