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 developing might result in long …

Neuroimaging of language control in bilinguals: neural adaptation and reserve

J Abutalebi, DW Green - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2016 - cambridge.org
Speaking more than one language demands a language control system that allows
bilinguals to correctly use the intended language adjusting for possible interference from the …

Bilingualism tunes the anterior cingulate cortex for conflict monitoring

J Abutalebi, PA Della Rosa, DW Green… - Cerebral …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Monitoring and controlling 2 language systems is fundamental to language use in bilinguals.
Here, we reveal in a combined functional (event-related functional magnetic resonance …

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 Skip
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Good language-switchers are good task-switchers: Evidence from Spanish–English and Mandarin–English bilinguals

A Prior, TH Gollan - Journal of the International Neuropsychological …, 2011 - cambridge.org
Bilingual advantages in executive control tasks are well documented, but it is not yet clear
what degree or type of bilingualism leads to these advantages. To investigate this issue, we …

A bilingual advantage in task switching

A Prior, B MacWhinney - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2010 - cambridge.org
This study investigated the possibility that lifelong bilingualism may lead to enhanced
efficiency in the ability to shift between mental sets. We compared the performance of …

Is there a relation between onset age of bilingualism and enhancement of cognitive control?

G Luk, E De Sa, E Bialystok - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2011 - cambridge.org
Young English-speaking monolingual and bilingual adults were examined for English
proficiency, language use history, and performance on a flanker task. The bilinguals, who …

Cognitive control for language switching in bilinguals: A quantitative meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies

G Luk, DW Green, J Abutalebi… - Language and cognitive …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In a quantitative meta-analysis, using the activation likelihood estimation method, we
examined the neural regions involved in bilingual cognitive control, particularly when …

Bilingual language switching in the laboratory versus in the wild: The spatiotemporal dynamics of adaptive language control

E Blanco-Elorrieta, L Pylkkänen - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
For a bilingual human, every utterance requires a choice about which language to use. This
choice is commonly regarded as part of general executive control, engaging prefrontal and …