Okanda, et al. (2010) reported new evidence concerning associations between language ability, bilingualism, and executive functioning early in development. The paper adds to a growing body of literature suggesting that bilingualism is associated with advantages in executive functioning generally, and the Dimensional Change Card Sort task in particular. However, as with all findings that hinge o...

Bilingualism means more than speaking two languages, it also has cognitive consequences. Recently, the question whether or not bilingualism affects cognitive control abilities has raised fierce debates. In this thesis, the effect of bilingualism on executive control was tested in different domains. First, bilingual speakers showed enhanced attentional control abilities while performing non-verb...

Learning how to speak a second language (i.e., becoming a bilingual) and learning how to play a musical instrument (i.e., becoming a musician) are both thought to increase executive control through experience-dependent plasticity. However, evidence supporting this effect is mixed for bilingualism and limited for musicianship. In addition, the combined effects of bilingualism and musicianship on...

the question of who is and who is not a bilingual is more difficult to answer than it first appears. bilingualism was long regarded as the equal mastery of two languages, a definition that still prevails in certain glossaries of linguistics. however, today's complex world requires a more exact definition and analysis of the competencies that community members require to interact with speakers o...

Studies using artificial language streams indicate that infants and adults can use statistics to correctly segment words. However, most studies have utilized only a single input language. Given the prevalence of bilingualism, how is multiple language input segmented? One particular problem may occur if learners combine input across languages: the statistics of particular units that overlap diff...

Various studies have shown that bilingual children need a certain degree of proficiency in both languages before their bilingual experiences enhance their executive functioning (EF). In the current study, we investigated if degree of bilingualism in Frisian-Dutch children influenced EF and if this effect was sustained over a 3-year period. To this end, longitudinal data were analyzed from 120 F...

Citation: Grundy JG and Anderson JAE (2017) Commentary: The Relationship of Bilingualism Compared to Monolingualism to the Risk of Cognitive Decline or Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Front. Aging Neurosci. 9:344. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00344 Commentary: The Relationship of Bilingualism Compared to Monolingualism to the Risk of Cognitive Decline or Dementia: A Systematic Revie...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / August 2016, pp 1 10 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728916000729, Published online: 29 July 2016 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728916000729 How to cite this article: ANGELA GRANT and NANCY DENNIS Increased processing speed in young adult bilinguals: evidence from source memory judgments. Bilingualism: Language and...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / December 2014, pp 1 6 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000273, Published online: 29 December 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728914000273 How to cite this article: MELODY WISEHEART, MYTHILI VISWANATHAN and ELLEN BIALYSTOK Flexibility in task switching by monolinguals and bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language a...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / August 2016, pp 1 2 DOI: 10.1017/S136672891600081X, Published online: 01 August 2016 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S136672891600081X How to cite this article: PHILLIP HAMRICK and MICHAEL T. ULLMAN A neurocognitive perspective on retrieval interference in L2 sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and C...