In this paper, we review issues in bilingual language comprehension in the light of functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related brain potential (ERP) data. Next, we …

Recent years have seen increasing interest in research on bilingualism and second
language learning. These studies of bilinguals have revealed aspects of the human mind …

This meta‐analysis investigated the relationship between foreign language (FL) anxiety and
FL performance. Fifty‐five independent samples with more than 10,000 participants were …

This study set out to investigate the relationship between L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK) and
second-language (L2) reading/listening comprehension. More than 100 individual studies …

Contemporary research on bilingualism has been framed by two major discoveries. In the
realm of language processing, studies of comprehension and production show that …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

During reading, monolingual readers actively predict upcoming words from sentence
context. Here we investigated whether bilingual readers predict sentence final words when …

Psycholinguistics has traditionally focused on language processing in monolingual
speakers. In the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase of research on …

Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

This study examines how the cross-linguistic similarity of translation equivalents affects
bilingual word recognition. Performing one of three tasks, Dutch–English bilinguals …