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 …

Bilingualism: consequences for mind and brain

E Bialystok, FIM Craik, G Luk - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012‏ - cell.com
Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children's
cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging …

Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes

MD Hilchey, RM Klein - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2011‏ - Springer
It has been proposed that the unique need for early bilinguals to manage multiple
languages while their executive control mechanisms are develo** might result in long …

Self-ratings of spoken language dominance: A Multilingual Naming Test (MINT) and preliminary norms for young and aging Spanish–English bilinguals

TH Gollan, GH Weissberger, E Runnqvist… - Bilingualism: language …, 2012‏ - cambridge.org
This study investigated correspondence between different measures of bilingual language
proficiency contrasting self-report, proficiency interview, and picture naming skills. Fifty-two …

Bilingual minds

E Bialystok, FIM Craik, DW Green… - … science in the public …, 2009‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Bilingual Minds - Ellen Bialystok, Fergus IM Craik, David W. Green, Tamar H. Gollan, 2009
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Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent

E Bialystok - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2009‏ - cambridge.org
The present paper summarizes research showing that bilingualism affects linguistic and
cognitive performance across the lifespan. The effect on linguistic performance is generally …

Cognitive control and lexical access in younger and older bilinguals.

E Bialystok, F Craik, G Luk - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2008‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Ninety-six participants, who were younger (20 years) or older (68 years) adults and either
monolingual or bilingual, completed tasks assessing working memory, lexical retrieval, and …

Effects of bilingualism and aging on executive function and working memory.

E Bialystok, G Poarch, L Luo, FIM Craik - Psychology and aging, 2014‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Two studies are reported in which younger and older monolingual and bilingual adults
performed executive function tasks. In Study 1, 130 participants performed a Stroop task and …

More use almost always means a smaller frequency effect: Aging, bilingualism, and the weaker links hypothesis

TH Gollan, RI Montoya, C Cera, TC Sandoval - Journal of memory and …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The “weaker links” hypothesis proposes that bilinguals are disadvantaged relative to
monolinguals on speaking tasks because they divide frequency-of-use between two …

Bilingualism affects picture naming but not picture classification

TH Gollan, RI Montoya, C Fennema-Notestine… - Memory & …, 2005‏ - Springer
Bilinguals named pictures in their dominant language more slowly (and with more errors)
than did monolinguals. In contrast, bilinguals named the same pictures as quickly as did …