How does bilingualism modify cognitive function? Attention to the mechanism

E Bialystok, FIM Craik - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2022 - Springer
It has been claimed that bilingual experience leads to an enhancement of cognitive control
across the lifespan, a claim that has been investigated by comparing monolingual and …

The effects of bilingualism on executive functions: An updated quantitative analysis

JG Grundy - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2020 - Springer
Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

Is there a bilingual advantage on interference-control tasks? A multiverse meta-analysis of global reaction time and interference cost

S Donnelly, PJ Brooks, BD Homer - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
A contentious issue in contemporary psycholinguistics is whether bilingualism enhances
executive functions. Here, we report a meta-analysis of 80 studies (253 effect sizes) …

Meta-analysis reveals a bilingual advantage that is dependent on task and age

AT Ware, M Kirkovski, JAG Lum - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Debate continues on whether a bilingual advantage exists with respect to executive
functioning. This report synthesized the results of 170 studies to test whether the bilingual …

Benefits of foreign language learning and bilingualism: An analysis of published empirical research 2012–2019

R Fox, O Corretjer, K Webb - Foreign Language Annals, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 bilingual advantage debate: Quantity and quality of the evidence

K Paap - The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The bilingual advantage hypothesis is difficult to test for many reasons and one is the
complexity of the executive functioning (EF) construct. The newest wave of meta‐anlayses …

From Bilingualism to Bilingualisms: Bilingual experience in Edinburgh and Singapore affects attentional control differently

SH Ooi, WD Goh, A Sorace, TH Bak - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Recent theories propose that language-switching in bilinguals influences executive control.
We investigated whether switching behaviour, shaped by the bilingual's interactional context …

Does early active bilingualism enhance inhibitory control and monitoring? A propensity-matching analysis.

A Hartanto, H Yang - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Prior research suggesting that longer bilingual experience benefits inhibitory control and
monitoring has been criticized for a lack of control over confounding variables. We …

Effects of language context on executive control in unbalanced bilinguals: An ERPs study

L Jiao, C Liu, A de Bruin, B Chen - Psychophysiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of the language context on language control has been widely discussed in the
bilingualism literature, and there is an increase in studies examining the effect of language …

Interference suppression in bilingualism: Stimulus-Stimulus vs. Stimulus-Response conflict

L Xia, TH Bak, A Sorace… - … : Language and cognition, 2022 - cambridge.org
Studies examining the potential effects of bilingualism on interference suppression show
inconsistent results. Our study approaches this topic by distinguishing two potential …