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While bilinguals differ from monolinguals in brain structure and function, the extent to which these differences impact non-linguistic cognitive abilities remains debated. The current set of experiments was motivated by the view that all language experiences don’t impact executive attention equally. Driven by contemporary hypotheses on the neurocognitive basis of bilingual language control, four characteristics of bilingualism (patterns of language use, similarity, proficiency, and age of acquisition) were related to performance on the Attentional Blink (AB) task. While not replicated in Experiment 2, results from Experiment 1 and a combined group analysis demonstrated that more balanced first- and second-language use and more distantly related languages were predictive of smaller ABs. In follow-up analyses, smaller ABs were associated with better Simon task performance across both experiments. These findings …