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 …

[HTML][HTML] Is bilingualism related to a cognitive advantage in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

HL Gunnerud, D Ten Braak, EKL Reikerås… - Psychological …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

The bilingual advantage in children's executive functioning is not related to language status: A meta-analytic review

CJ Lowe, I Cho, SF Goldsmith… - Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
There is considerable debate about whether bilingual children have an advantage in
executive functioning relative to monolingual children. In the current meta-analysis, we …

Bilingualism modifies cognition through adaptation, not transfer

E Bialystok - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
The standard explanation for bilingual effects on cognition is that an aspect of language
processing transfers to nonverbal cognitive performance, leading to improvements in …

Sequential congruency effects reveal differences in disengagement of attention for monolingual and bilingual young adults

JG Grundy, A Chung-Fat-Yim, DC Friesen, L Mak… - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Three studies examined the hypothesis that bilinguals can more rapidly disengage attention
from irrelevant information than monolinguals by investigating the impact of previous trial …

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 …

The impact of bilingual environments on selective attention in infancy

KJ Comishen, E Bialystok, SA Adler - Developmental science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bilingualism has been observed to influence cognitive processing across the lifespan but
whether bilingual environments have an effect on selective attention and attention strategies …

Bilinguals have more complex EEG brain signals in occipital regions than monolinguals

JG Grundy, JAE Anderson, E Bialystok - NeuroImage, 2017 - Elsevier
Brain signal complexity increases with development and is associated with better cognitive
outcomes in older age. Research has also shown that bilinguals are able to stave off …

Executive control performance and foreign-language proficiency associated with immersion education in French-speaking Belgium

M Simonis, L Van der Linden, B Galand… - Bilingualism …, 2020 - cambridge.org
A large sample study (n= 513) was conducted to investigate executive control performance
in pupils following an immersion education program. We recruited 10-year-old children (n …

Cognitive control facilitates attentional disengagement during second language comprehension

CA Navarro-Torres, DL Garcia, V Chidambaram… - Brain sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bilinguals learn to resolve conflict between their two languages and that skill has been
hypothesized to create long-term adaptive changes in cognitive functioning. Yet, little is …