Two seemingly counterintuitive phenomena–asymmetrical language switch costs and the
reversed language dominance effect–prove to be particularly controversial in the literature …

Abstract Models vary in the extent to which language control processes are domain general.
Those that posit that language control is at least partially domain general insist on an …

Perhaps the main advantage of being bilingual is the capacity to communicate with
interlocutors that have different language backgrounds. In the life of a bilingual, switching …

Advancements in decoding speech from brain activity have focused on decoding a single
language. Hence, the extent to which bilingual speech production relies on unique or …

Bilinguals with a high proficiency in their first (L1) and second language (L2) often show
comparable reaction times when switching from their L1 to L2 and vice-versa (“symmetrical …

Few language switching studies have found conditions in which there is no significant cost
to switching languages. Since language-switch costs are a measure of language control …

It is currently unclear to what degree language control, which minimizes non-target
language interference and increases the probability of selecting target-language words, is …

How does bilingual language control adapt to the cultural context? We address this question
by looking at the pattern of switch cost and reversed language dominance effect, which are …

The use of multiple languages has been found to influence individuals' cognitive abilities.
Although some studies have also investigated the effect of multilingualism on non-native …

Language switch costs have been explored less in receptive tasks than in productive tasks,
and previous studies have produced mixed findings with regard to switch cost symmetry and …