Objectives Experience-related neuroplasticity suggests that bilinguals who actively manage
their two languages would develop more efficient neural organization at brain regions …

Recent behavioral data have shown that lifelong bilingualism can maintain youthful
cognitive control abilities in aging. Here, we provide the first direct evidence of a neural …

Normal aging is an inevitable race between increasing knowledge and decreasing cognitive
capacity. Crucial to understanding and promoting successful aging is determining which of …

Drawing on the adaptive control hypothesis, we examined whether older adults' bilingual
interactional contexts of conversational exchanges would predict important indices of …

Evidence that bilingualism protects against age-related neurocognitive decline is mixed.
One relatively consistent finding is that bilingual seniors have greater grey matter volume …

Research has suggested that using two or more languages on a daily basis helps older
adults maintain a heightened functional state and improves neurocomputational efficiency …

Background Whether bilingualism can improve aspects of cognitive function in late
adulthood is hotly debated. A few limited studies have reported that bilingualism may …

A wealth of research on experience-related plasticity has shown that specific experiences,
such as musical training (Herholz & Zatorre, 2012) or juggling (Draganski et al., 2004), can …

This study investigated whether lifelong bilingualism can be associated with enhanced
executive control, particularly mental flexibility, and with a modulation of an age-related …

In recent years bilingualism has been linked to both advantages in executive control and
positive impacts on aging. Such positive cognitive effects of bilingualism have been …