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 …

Is there a bilingual advantage on interference-control tasks? A multiverse meta-analysis of global reaction time and interference cost

S Donnelly, PJ Brooks, BD Homer - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
A contentious issue in contemporary psycholinguistics is whether bilingualism enhances
executive functions. Here, we report a meta-analysis of 80 studies (253 effect sizes) …

Benefits of foreign language learning and bilingualism: An analysis of published empirical research 2012–2019

R Fox, O Corretjer, K Webb - Foreign Language Annals, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The 21st century has seen a strong upward trajectory in empirical research on the multiple
benefits that foreign language/world language learning and bilingualism can afford to both …

Cognitive control ability mediates prediction costs in monolinguals and bilinguals

M Zirnstein, JG van Hell, JF Kroll - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we examined the role that cognitive control and language regulation ability play
in mediating readers' susceptibility to prediction error costs when reading in the native …

Uncovering the mechanisms responsible for why language learning may promote healthy cognitive aging

M Antoniou, SM Wright - Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
One of the great challenges facing humankind in the 21st century is preserving healthy brain
function in our aging population. Individuals over 60 are the fastest growing age group in the …

Cultural effects rather than a bilingual advantage in cognition: A review and an empirical study

S Samuel, K Roehr‐Brackin, H Pak, H Kim - Cognitive science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The bilingual advantage hypothesis contends that the management of two languages in the
brain is carried out through domain‐general mechanisms, and that bilinguals possess a …

Intensity of multilingual language use predicts cognitive performance in some multilingual older adults

A Pot, M Keijzer, K De Bot - Brain sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cognitive advantages for bilinguals have inconsistently been observed in different
populations, with different operationalisations of bilingualism, cognitive performance, and …

In search of better practice in executive functions assessment: Methodological issues and potential solutions.

M Yangüez, B Bediou, J Chanal… - Psychological Review, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The multicomponent nature of executive functions (EF) has long been recognized, pushing
for a better understanding of both the commonalities and the diversity between EF …

Le petit prince hong kong (lpphk): Naturalistic fmri and eeg data from older cantonese speakers

M Momenian, Z Ma, S Wu, C Wang, J Brennan, J Hale… - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
Currently, the field of neurobiology of language is based on data from only a few Indo-
European languages. The majority of this data comes from younger adults neglecting other …

Strategic attention and decision control support prospective memory in a complex dual-task environment

RJ Boag, L Strickland, S Loft, A Heathcote - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Human performance in complex multiple-task environments depends critically on the
interplay between cognitive control and cognitive capacity. In this paper we propose a …