Cognitive advantages for bilinguals have inconsistently been observed in different
populations, with different operationalisations of bilingualism, cognitive performance, and …

Language can have a powerful effect on how people experience events. Here, we examine
how the languages people speak guide attention and influence what they remember from a …

The cross-linguistic gender congruency effect (GCE; a facilitation on gender retrieval for
translations of the same gender) is a robust phenomenon analysed almost exclusively with …

This study was designed to replicate earlier reports of the utility of the Boston Naming Test–
Short Form (BNT-15) as an index of limited English proficiency (LEP). Twenty-eight English …

Lánnang-uè, as used in Manila, is a predominantly oral Sino-Philippine variety that has
elements derived from Hokkien, Mandarin, English, and Tagalog. Its users, the Lannangs …

This study assessed the usefulness of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study
word production in the brain. As a test case, we focused on the semantic interference effect …

Does a long-term stay in a foreign language country affect word retrieval in our native
language? And if so, are the effects reversible? The present study explored the neural …

Although bilingual speakers are very good at selectively using one language rather than
another, sometimes language selection errors occur. To investigate how bilinguals monitor …

Bilinguals usually select the right language to speak for the particular context they are in, but
sometimes the nontarget language intrudes. Despite a large body of research into language …

Foreign language attrition (FLA) appears to be driven by interference from other, more
recently-used languages (Mickan et al., 2020). Here we tracked these interference dynamics …