Does language entropy shape cognitive performance? A tale of two cities

D Wagner, K Bekas, E Bialystok - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Research examining the cognitive consequences of bilingualism has increasingly relied on
continuous measures to capture the degree and nature of bilingual experience, using such …

Bilingualism caught in a net: A new approach to understanding the complexity of bilingual experience.

P Kałamała, A Chuderski, J Szewczyk… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The growing importance of research on bilingualism in psychology and neuroscience
motivates the need for a psychometric model that can be used to understand and quantify …

Assessing language background and experiences among heritage bilinguals

A Macbeth, N Atagi, JL Montag, MR Bruni… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The language backgrounds and experiences of bilinguals have been primarily
characterized using self-report questionnaires and laboratory tasks, although each of these …

Modeling lexical abilities of heritage language and L2 speakers of Hebrew and English in Israel and the United States: a network approach

C Fridman, A Livni, S Bar On, N Meir - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction This paper examines the productive vocabulary skills of five groups of English-
Hebrew bilinguals in Israel and the United States. The juxtaposition of these five groups …

Language entropy relates to behavioral and pupil indices of executive control in young adult bilinguals

F van den Berg, J Brouwer, TB Tienkamp… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction It has been proposed that bilinguals' language use patterns are differentially
associated with executive control. To further examine this, the present study relates the …

Modulating effects of interactional contexts on bilinguals' cognitive control: Evidence for the Adaptive Control Hypothesis

X Han, L Wei, R Filippi - International Journal of Bilingualism, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and Objects: The Adaptive Control Hypothesis (ACH) proposed that different
interactional contexts place different demands on cognitive processes for bilinguals …

Self-evaluations and the language of the beholder: objective performance and language solidarity predict L2 and L1 self-evaluations in bilingual adults

E Hernández-Rivera, A Kalogeris, M Tiv… - … Research: Principles and …, 2024 - Springer
People are often asked to self-evaluate their abilities, and these evaluations may not always
reflect objective reality. Here, we investigated this issue for bilingual adults' self-evaluations …

Leveraging social network data to ground multilingual background measures: The case of general and socially based language entropy.

A Iniesta, M Yang, AL Beatty-Martínez… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent research on multilingualism highlights the role of language diversity in modulating
the cognitive capacities of communication and suggests a gap in available measures for …

Do readers exert language control when switching alphabets within a language?

DF Đurđević, LB Feldman - Journal of Memory and Language, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigated language control in (within-language) between alphabet switching during
comprehension by exploiting the overlap between the two character sets of Serbian. We …

Different trajectories for becoming bilingual lead to comparable outcomes in cognitive flexibility

M Gade, AM Philipp, A Prior - International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and Objective: Bilingualism has been proposed to affect cognitive flexibility, but
findings in the literature are mixed. One reason for this might be the different trajectories of …