It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some
extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep …

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 …

A core component of cognitive control–the ability to regulate thoughts and actions in
accordance with internally represented behavioral goals–might be its intrinsic variability. In …

Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple
incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Critical requirements for the hypothesis that executive functioning is a potential mediator of
age-related effects on cognitive functioning are that variables assumed to reflect executive …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

Cognitive abilities rise steeply from infancy to young adulthood and then are either
maintained or decline to old age, depending on the specific ability. This pattern suggests …

The prefrontal cortex has long been thought to subserve both working memory (the holding
of information online for processing) and executive functions (deciding how to manipulate …