Is bilingualism associated with enhanced executive functioning in adults? A meta-analytic review.

M Lehtonen, A Soveri, A Laine, J Järvenpää… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

The effects of bilingualism on executive functions: An updated quantitative analysis

JG Grundy - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2020 - Springer
Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

Meta-analysis reveals a bilingual advantage that is dependent on task and age

AT Ware, M Kirkovski, JAG Lum - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Debate continues on whether a bilingual advantage exists with respect to executive
functioning. This report synthesized the results of 170 studies to test whether the bilingual …

Distributed semantic representations for modeling human judgment

S Bhatia, R Richie, W Zou - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
People make judgments about thousands of different objects and concepts on a day-to-day
basis; however, capturing the knowledge that subserves these judgments has been difficult …

Is bilingualism associated with better working memory capacity? A meta-analysis

C Monnier, J Boiché, P Armandon… - … Journal of Bilingual …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Does bilingualism come with linguistic costs? A meta-analytic review of the bilingual lexical deficit

E Bylund, J Antfolk, N Abrahamsson… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2023 - Springer
A series of recent studies have shown that the once-assumed cognitive advantage of
bilingualism finds little support in the evidence available to date. Surprisingly, however, the …

Disentangling contextual diversity: Communicative need as a lexical organizer.

BT Johns - Psychological Review, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Contextual diversity (CD; Adelman, Brown, & Quesada, 2006) modifies word
frequency by ignoring word repetition in context. It has been repeatedly found that a CD …

Anchoring and contextual variation in the early stages of incidental word learning during reading

MHC Mak, Y Hsiao, K Nation - Journal of Memory and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
Lexical processing is influenced by a word's semantic diversity, as estimated by corpus-
derived metrics. Although this suggests that contextual variation shapes verbal learning and …

Semantic diversity, frequency and the development of lexical quality in children's word reading

Y Hsiao, K Nation - Journal of Memory and Language, 2018 - Elsevier
Frequency exerts a powerful influence on lexical processing but it is possible that at least
part of its effect is caused by high frequency words being experienced in more diverse …

A large-scale semantic analysis of verbal fluency across the aging spectrum: Data from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging

V Taler, BT Johns, MN Jones - The Journals of Gerontology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objectives The present study aimed to characterize changes in verbal fluency performance
across the lifespan using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) …