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

The 21st century has seen a strong upward trajectory in empirical research on the multiple
benefits that foreign language/world language learning and bilingualism can afford to both …

The notion that the long-term practice of managing two languages is beneficial for the
executive control system is an ongoing debate. Criticism have been raised that studies …

Background Dual tasking, or the ability to executing two tasks simultaneously, has been
used in recent research to predict cognitive impairments, physical frailty, and has been …

Bilinguals often show a disadvantage in lexical access on verbal fluency tasks wherein the
criteria require the production of words from semantic categories. However, the pattern is …

The impact of linguistic distance or the relatedness between two languages, on bilinguals'
episodic memory performance and verbal fluency is an understudied area. Thus, the …

We tested how the bilingual processing system adapts to high attentional processing loads,
using a dual selective attention task. We also tested how this adaptation changes with …

In multilingual education for sustainable personal development, compared with that of
multiple languages, the teaching and learning of multiple varieties of a language has been …

Aim: This study investigates the effects of degree of multilingualism on cognitive functions in
adulthood, with focus on episodic memory recall and including measures of verbal fluency …

Demands for effective assessments of speech perception specific to the aging brain are
increasing, as the impacts of hearing loss on an individual's functional health, socialization …