Clear theories are needed to interpret differences: Perspectives on the bilingual advantage debate

A de Bruin, AS Dick, M Carreiras - Neurobiology of Language, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
The heated debate regarding bilingual cognitive advantages remains ongoing. While there
are many studies supporting positive cognitive effects of bilingualism, recent meta-analyses …

The impact of bilingualism on executive functions and working memory in young adults

E Antón, M Carreiras, JA Duñabeitia - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Sequential congruency effects in monolingual and bilingual adults: A failure to replicate Grundy et al.(2017)

SF Goldsmith, JB Morton - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Previous research suggests bilingual adults show smaller sequential congruency effects
than monolingual adults. Here we re-examined these findings by administering an Eriksen …

[HTML][HTML] No bilingual advantage in children's attentional disengagement: Congruency and sequential congruency effects in a large sample of monolingual and …

SF Goldsmith, M El-Baba, X He, DJ Lewis… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
According to recent accounts, bilingualism in childhood confers an advantage in a specific
domain of executive functioning termed attentional disengagement. The current study tested …

Bilingualism and the executive function advantage in preterm-born children

M Baralt, AD Mahoney - Cognitive Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Complications from premature birth puts children at risk for poorer executive function
compared to their term-born peers. This study aimed to examine the effect of bilingualism on …

Functional neuroanatomy of arithmetic in monolingual and bilingual adults and children

E Brignoni‐Pérez, AA Matejko, NI Jamal… - Human Brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Prior studies on the brain bases of arithmetic have not focused on (or even described) their
participants' language backgrounds. Yet, unlike monolinguals, early bilinguals have the …

Heterogeneity in cognitive profiles of monolingual and bilingual Hispanic/Latino older adults in HABS-HD

AL Clark, A Reyes, J Breton, M Petersen… - Journal of the …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Objective: The present study characterized heterogeneity in the cognitive profiles of
monolingual and bilingual Latino older adults enrolled in the HABS-HD. Methods: A total of …

Phonological network fluency identifies phonological restructuring through mental search

KD Neergaard, J Luo, CR Huang - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We investigated network principles underlying mental search through a novel phonological
verbal fluency task. Post exclusion, 95 native-language Mandarin speakers produced as …

Functional neuroanatomy of English word reading in early bilingual and monolingual adults

E Brignoni‐Pérez, NI Jamal, GF Eden - Human Brain Mapping, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Skilled reading is important in daily life. While the understanding of the neurofunctional
organization of this uniquely human skill has advanced significantly, it does not take into …

[图书][B] Investigating the neurofunctional bases of reading in the Spanish-English bilingual brain

E Brignoni-Perez - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Dual-language use from early stages in life is the experience of over half of the world's
population. This experience is becoming more prevalent worldwide, even in countries that …