Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children's
cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging …

The relation between bilingualism and cognition is informative about the connection
between language and mind. From the perspective of language, the question is how …

Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

Whether acquiring a second language affords any general advantages to executive function
has been a matter of fierce scientific debate for decades. If being bilingual does have …

It has been proposed that the unique need for early bilinguals to manage multiple
languages while their executive control mechanisms are developing might result in long …

In recent decades several authors have suggested that bilinguals exhibit enhanced
cognitive control as compared to monolinguals and some proposals suggest that this main …

Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that
tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have …

The question whether being bilingual yields cognitive benefits is highly controversial with
prior studies providing inconsistent results. Failures to replicate the bilingual advantage …

Bilingual Minds - Ellen Bialystok, Fergus IM Craik, David W. Green, Tamar H. Gollan, 2009
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