Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing executive functioning, but other studies have not revealed any effect of bilingualism. In this study we compared three groups of bilingual children in the Netherlands, aged 6-7 years, with a monolingual control group. We were specifically interested in testing whether the bilingual cognitive advantage is mo...

Albert Costa was a dear friend and colleague who died young but accomplished much. We provide brief sketch of his scientific contributions to the field psycholinguistics bilingualism. The articles included in special issue are then presented along three research topics developed by own career: Lexical access bilingualism, executive control judgement decision making foreign language. explore suc...

English-Spanish cognates are words that are orthographically and semantically identical or nearly identical in English and Spanish as a result of a common etymology. Because of the similarities in the two languages, Spanish-dominant Latino English Language Learners (ELLs) can be taught to recognize English cognates thereby increasing their bilingualism and bi-literacy for these two languages. T...

Cerebral gray-matter volume (GMV) decreases in normal aging but the extent of the decrease may be experience-dependent. Bilingualism may be one protective factor and in this article we examine its potential protective effect on GMV in a region that shows strong age-related decreases-the left anterior temporal pole. This region is held to function as a conceptual hub and might be expected to be ...

Evidence suggests that education protects from dementia by enhancing cognitive reserve. However, this may be influenced by several socio-demographic factors. Rising numbers of dementia in India, high levels of illiteracy and heterogeneity in socio-demographic factors provide an opportunity to explore this relationship. Objective To study the association between education and age at dementia o...

Advances in neuroimaging techniques and analytic methods have led to a proliferation of studies investigating the impact of bilingualism on the cognitive and brain systems in humans. Lately, these findings have attracted much interest and debate in the field, leading to a number of recent commentaries and reviews. Here, we contribute to the ongoing discussion by compiling and interpreting the p...

The problem of bilingualism is socially important for obvious reasons. Even if relatively stringent definitions of language ability were employed, probably a majority of the world’s population would be considered bilingual. Further, with increasing immigration, significant proportions of students in schools are coming from language backgrounds other than that of the majority culture. One study ...

In a recent review, Mukadam, Sommerlad, and Livingston (2017) argue that bilingualism offers no protection against cognitive decline. The authors examined the results of 13 studies (five prospective, eight retrospective) in which monolinguals and bilinguals were compared for cognitive decline and onset of dementia symptoms. Analysis of four of the five prospective studies resulted in the conclu...

Bilingualism is one of the phenomena that widespread in world. The article determines assimilation Kazakh-Russian bilingualism children's speech. In order to determine level mastering bilingualism, a sociolinguistic survey 2nd grade Kazakh and Russian language students was conducted. All all 31 pupils took part survey. There were 11 questions questionnaire. They asked cognitive thinking learnin...

Bilingualism is a multi-faceted experience and bilinguals differ in how they use their languages daily life. Therefore, assessments of bilingualism that consider the role (social) context are needed when describing bilinguals. In this study, we evaluated (reliably) Language Social Background Questionnaire (LSBQ; Anderson et al. 2018) describes language experiences living UK. Across 163 particip...