Bilingualism and dementia: cognitive reserve to linguistic competency

MF Mendez - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2019 - content.iospress.com
Despite the large number of elderly bilinguals at risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and
dementia worldwide, significant questions remain about the relationship between speaking …

Neural representation of linguistic feature hierarchy reflects second-language proficiency

GM Di Liberto, J Nie, J Yeaton, B Khalighinejad… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Acquiring a new language requires individuals to simultaneously and gradually learn
linguistic attributes on multiple levels. Here, we investigated how this learning process …

Bilingualism delays expression of Alzheimer's clinical syndrome

MF Mendez, D Chavez, G Akhlaghipour - Dementia and geriatric …, 2020 - karger.com
Objective: To evaluate the effects of bilingualism on the emergence of Alzheimer's clinical
syndrome. Background: Studies have proposed an increase in cognitive and neural reserve …

Recognizing the effects of language mode on the cognitive advantages of bilingualism

Z Yu, JW Schwieter - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
For bilinguals, it is argued that a cognitive advantage can be linked to the constant
management and need for conflict resolution that occurs when the two languages are co …

Can Speaking More Than One Language Help Prevent Alzheimer's Disease?

MF Mendez - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2023 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurocognitive disorder that is epidemic in the
elderly population. Currently, there are limited pharmacological interventions, and this has …

Lexical pathway from L2 to L1 activation in intermediate proficient bilinguals: behavioral and ERP evidence

S Yang, S Jiang, M Jiang, Q Guo - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Numerous studies have demonstrated that second language (L2) comprehension is often
accompanied by activations in the first language (L1). Using both behavioral measurement …

[HTML][HTML] Sub-Lexical Processing of Chinese–English Bilinguals: An ERP Analysis

Y Chen, E Rossi - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Previous research has established that bilinguals automatically activate lexical items in both
of their languages in a nonselectivemanner, even when processing linguistic information in …

Bilingual brains learn to use L2 alliterations covertly like poets: brain ERP evidence

S Yang, X Zhang, M Jiang - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bilinguals were documented to access their native or first language (L1) during
comprehension of their second languages (L2). However, it is uncertain whether they can …

Semantic and perceptual priming activate partially overlapping brain networks as revealed by direct cortical recordings in humans

E Khachatryan, B Wittevrongel, MF Hnazaee… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Facilitation of object processing in the brain due to a related context (priming) can be
influenced by both semantic connections and perceptual similarity. It is thus important to …

[图书][B] On Bilinguals and Bilingualism

F Grosjean - 2024 - books.google.com
François Grosjean is one of the world's best-known scholars in the study of bilingualism.
Over a career spanning two continents, his holistic approach has made groundbreaking …