Shining a light on cultural neuroscience: Recommendations on the use of fNIRS to study how sociocultural contexts shape the brain.

MM Arredondo - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a portable neuroimaging technique that
may serve as a methodological tool for studying how sociocultural contexts can shape the …

Context, intersectionality, and resilience: Moving toward a more holistic study of bilingualism in cognitive science.

BG López, A Luque, B Piña-Watson - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Bilingual experiences are diverse, vibrant, and multidimensional. Yet, prior
research has often homogenized bilingualism and based outcomes upon monolingual …

What's in a word? Cross‐linguistic influences on Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilingual children's word reading development

X Sun, K Zhang, RA Marks, N Nickerson… - Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the cross‐linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish–English,
Chinese–English bilingual, and English monolingual children (N= 283, 5–10 years) …

Supporting bilingualism in vulnerable populations

M Vender, M Vernice, A Sorace - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although bilingualism is generally appraised and supported by society, many more doubts
arise when it comes to children suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders. The concern …

How many moderators does it take till we know… that too many bilingual advantage effects have died?

J Festman, S Czapka, A Winsler - Understanding variability in …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The debate concerning a potential bilingual cognitive advantage is ongoing but has turned
to focus on understanding factors modulating the appearance of bilingual effects. The …

[HTML][HTML] Bilingualism yields language-specific plasticity in left hemisphere's circuitry for learning to read in young children

KK Jasińska, MS Berens, I Kovelman, LA Petitto - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
How does bilingual exposure impact children's neural circuitry for learning to read? Theories
of bilingualism suggests that exposure to two languages may yield a functional and …

[HTML][HTML] Preschool emergent literacy skills as predictors of reading and spelling in Grade 2 and the role of migration background in Germany

MV Jiménez, M Yumus, T Schiele, A Mues… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Children's emergent literacy skills are essential for the development of later literacy abilities
and school success. However, children with migration background often show poorer …

Simultaneous acquisition of English and Chinese impacts children's reliance on vocabulary, morphological and phonological awareness for reading in English

LSJ Hsu, KI Ip, MM Arredondo, T Tardif… - International journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The developmental process of reading acquisition is frequently conceptualized as a self-
organizing mental network consisting of lexico-semantic, phonological and orthographical …

The youngest bilingual Canadians: Insights from the 2016 census regarding children aged 0–9 years

E Schott, LV Kremin, K Byers-Heinlein - Canadian Public Policy, 2022 - utpjournals.press
In this study, we used 2016 Canadian Census data to examine home bilingualism among
children aged 0–9 years. Across Canada, 18 percent of children used at least two …

Integrated multilingualism and bilingual reading development

RA Marks, T Satterfield, I Kovelman - Multilingual perspectives on …, 2022 - degruyter.com
In this chapter, we harness brain development for bilingual reading to understand the impact
of bilingualism on neural representations of language. The Integrated Multilingual Model …