Cognitive and behavioural flexibility permit the appropriate adjustment of thoughts and
behaviours in response to changing environmental demands. Brain mechanisms enabling …

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 …

Learning a second language in childhood is inherently advantageous for communication.
However, parents, educators and scientists have been interested in determining whether …

Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions.
Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged …

A bilingual advantage in a form of a better performance of bilinguals in tasks tap** into
executive function abilities has been reported repeatedly in the literature. However, recent …

Due to their experience of managing two languages, it has been suggested that bilinguals
could receive more practice in the domain of working memory (WM) leading to a WM …

The bilingual advantage hypothesis is difficult to test for many reasons and one is the
complexity of the executive functioning (EF) construct. The newest wave of meta‐anlayses …

Approximately half of the world's population is bilingual or multilingual. The bilingual
advantage theory claims that the constant need to control both known languages, that are …

The present study examines whether teacher-rated self-regulation skills exhibited within the
classroom context and directly assessed individual executive function abilities at …

While smartphones have brought many benefits and conveniences to users, there is
continuing debate regarding their potential negative consequences on everyday cognition …