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 …

Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children's
cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging …

Whether acquiring a second language affords any general advantages to executive function
has been a matter of fierce scientific debate for decades. If being bilingual does have …

Abstract Language switching has been one of the main tasks to investigate language
control, a process that restricts bilingual language processing to the target language. In the …

In two experiments, we examined inhibitory control processes in three groups of bilinguals
and trilinguals that differed in nonnative language proficiency and language learning …

Drawing on the adaptive control hypothesis (Green & Abutalebi, 2013), we investigated
whether bilinguals' disparate interactional contexts modulate task-switching performance …

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

Meuter and Allport (1999) were among the first to implicate an inhibitory mechanism in
bilingual language control. In their study, bilinguals took longer to name a number in the L1 …

Previous studies have demonstrated a bilingual advantage in the efficiency of executive
attention. A question remains, however, about the impact of the age of L2 acquisition and …