Not all bilinguals are the same: A call for more detailed assessments and descriptions of bilingual experiences

A De Bruin - Behavioral Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
No two bilinguals are the same. Differences in bilingual experiences can affect language-
related processes but have also been proposed to modulate executive functioning …

Is there a bilingual advantage on interference-control tasks? A multiverse meta-analysis of global reaction time and interference cost

S Donnelly, PJ Brooks, BD Homer - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
A contentious issue in contemporary psycholinguistics is whether bilingualism enhances
executive functions. Here, we report a meta-analysis of 80 studies (253 effect sizes) …

Characterizing the social diversity of bilingualism using language entropy

JW Gullifer, D Titone - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2020 - cambridge.org
Bilingual and multilingual individuals exhibit variation in everyday language experience.
Studies on bilingualism account for individual differences with measures such as L2 age of …

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 …

On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition:(How) should we proceed?

E Leivada, M Westergaard, JA Duñabeitia… - Bilingualism …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions.
Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged …

Understanding bilingual brain function and structure changes? U bet! A unified bilingual experience trajectory model

V DeLuca, K Segaert, A Mazaheri, A Krott - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2020 - Elsevier
A growing body of research shows that the brain adapts functionally and structurally to
specific bilingual experiences. These brain adaptations seem related to modulations in …

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 …

The relationship between bilingual language use and executive functions

M Lehtonen, V Fyndanis, J Jylkkä - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
There is continuing debate over whether bilingualism can confer advantages in other areas
of cognition. Bilingual language behaviours, such as switching between languages, are …

Explaining individual differences in executive functions performance in multilinguals: The impact of code-switching and alternating between multicultural identity styles

J Treffers-Daller, Z Ongun, J Hofweber… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This study sheds new light on the relative impact of switching between languages and
switching between cultures on Executive Functions (EFs) in bilinguals. Several studies have …