Is bilingualism associated with enhanced executive functioning in adults? A meta-analytic review.

M Lehtonen, A Soveri, A Laine, J Järvenpää… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

Neural correlates of cognitive processing in monolinguals and bilinguals

JG Grundy, JAE Anderson… - Annals of the new York …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we review the neural correlates of cognitive control associated with bilingualism. We
demonstrate that lifelong practice managing two languages orchestrates global changes to …

Interactional context mediates the consequences of bilingualism for language and cognition.

AL Beatty-Martínez, CA Navarro-Torres… - Journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Proficient bilinguals use two languages actively, but the contexts in which they do so may
differ dramatically. The present study asked what consequences the contexts of language …

Bilingual experience and resting-state brain connectivity: Impacts of L2 age of acquisition and social diversity of language use on control networks

JW Gullifer, XJ Chai, V Whitford, I Pivneva, S Baum… - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigated the independent contributions of second language (L2) age of acquisition
(AoA) and social diversity of language use on intrinsic brain organization using seed-based …

Bilingualism and domain-general cognitive functions from a neural perspective: A systematic review

L Tao, G Wang, M Zhu, Q Cai - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
A large body of research has indicated that bilingualism–through continual practice in
language control–may impact cognitive functions, as well as relevant aspects of brain …

Codeswitching: A bilingual toolkit for opportunistic speech planning

AL Beatty-Martínez, CA Navarro-Torres… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The ability to engage in fluent codeswitching is a hallmark of the flexibility and creativity of
bilingual language use. Recent discoveries have changed the way we think about …

Engaging proactive control: Influences of diverse language experiences using insights from machine learning.

JW Gullifer, D Titone - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
We used insights from machine learning to address an important but contentious question: Is
bilingual language experience associated with executive control abilities? Specifically, we …

Language immersion and language training: Two paths to enhanced language regulation and cognitive control

H Zhang, MT Diaz, T Guo, JF Kroll - Brain and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
When bilinguals switch languages they regulate the more dominant language to enable
spoken production in the less dominant language. How do they engage cognitive control to …

The ups and downs of bilingualism: A review of the literature on executive control using event-related potentials

K Antoniou - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023 - Springer
Whether bilingualism enhances executive control (EC) is controversial. This article reviews
24 studies on the bilingual EC effect using event-related potentials (ERPs). It evaluates the …

Cognitive control in second language neurocognition

T Guo, F Ma - The Routledge Handbook of Second Language …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
In today's world, more and more people have begun to learn a second language. It has been
shown that their native language is also activated when second language learners intend to …