Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that
tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have …

Individual differences in cognitive performance increase with advancing age, reflecting
marked cognitive changes in some individuals along with little or no change in others …

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

The commentators on our target article,(Paap, Johnson, & Sawi, 2015) nicely framed its
importance and impact: Hartsuiker (2015) observed that early reports of bilingual …

Participants completed three cued-switching tasks, responded to two category-fluency
probes, two letter-fluency probes, and two probes to alternate between two targets …

Lifelong bilingualism represents a powerful cognitive reserve delaying the onset of dementia
by approximately 4 years. As to the causal mechanism, because speaking more than one …

Literature on bilingualism and cognition is characterised by a large amount of conflicting
evidence. In some studies, bilinguals perform better then monolinguals on executive tasks …

The verbal fluency task is a widely used neuropsychological test of word retrieval efficiency.
Both category fluency (eg, list animals) and letter fluency (eg, list words that begin with F) …

One of the great challenges facing humankind in the 21st century is preserving healthy brain
function in our aging population. Individuals over 60 are the fastest growing age group in the …