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1. Bilingualism, Aging, and Cognitive Control: Evidence From the Simon Task.

   Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik, Raymond M. Klein, et al. · 2004 · Psychology and Aging · 1,618 cites

   Previous work has shown that bilingualism is associated with more effective controlled processing in children; the assumption is that the constant management of 2 competing languages enhances executive functions (E. Bialystok, 2001). The present research attempted to determine whether this bilingual advantage persists for adults and whether bilingualism attenuates the negative effects of aging on cognitive control in older adults. Three studies are reported that compared the performance of monolingual and bilingual middle-aged and older adults on the Simon task. Bilingualism was associated with smaller Simon effect costs for both age groups; bilingual participants also responded more rapidly

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2. Bilingual experience and executive functioning in young children

   Stephanie M. Carlson, Andrew N. Meltzoff · 2008 · Developmental Science · 1,050 cites

   Advanced inhibitory control skills have been found in bilingual speakers as compared to monolingual controls (Bialystok, 1999). We examined whether this effect is generalized to an unstudied language group (Spanish-English bilingual) and multiple measures of executive function by administering a battery of tasks to 50 kindergarten children drawn from three language groups: native bilinguals, monolinguals (English), and English speakers enrolled in second-language immersion kindergarten. Despite having significantly lower verbal scores and parent education/income level, Spanish-English bilingual children's raw scores did not differ from their peers. After statistically controlling for these f

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3. Cognitive control and lexical access in younger and older bilinguals.

   Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik, Gigi Luk · 2008 · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 924 cites

   Ninety-six participants, who were younger (20 years) or older (68 years) adults and either monolingual or bilingual, completed tasks assessing working memory, lexical retrieval, and executive control. Younger participants performed most of the tasks better than older participants, confirming the effect of aging on these processes. The effect of language group was different for each type of task: Monolinguals and bilinguals performed similarly on working memory tasks, monolinguals performed better on lexical retrieval tasks, and bilinguals performed better on executive control tasks, with some evidence for larger language group differences in older participants on the executive control tasks.

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4. Is bilingualism associated with enhanced executive functioning in adults? A meta-analytic review.

   Minna Lehtonen, Anna Soveri, Aini Laine, et al. · 2018 · Psychological Bulletin · 635 cites

   Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive investigation, there is, however, no consensus regarding the existence of such a bilingual advantage. Here we synthesized comparisons of bilinguals' and monolinguals' performance in six executive domains using 891 effect sizes from 152 studies on adults. We also included unpublished data, and considered the potential influence of a number of study-, task-, and participant-related variables. Before correcting estimates for observed publication bias, our analyses revealed a very small bilingual advantage for inhibition, sh

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5. Musical expertise, bilingualism, and executive functioning.

   Ellen Bialystok, Anne-Marie R. DePape · 2009 · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · 437 cites

   The authors investigated whether intensive musical experience leads to enhancements in executive processing, as has been shown for bilingualism. Young adults who were bilinguals, musical performers (instrumentalists or vocalists), or neither completed 3 cognitive measures and 2 executive function tasks based on conflict. Both executive function tasks included control conditions that assessed performance in the absence of conflict. All participants performed equivalently for the cognitive measures and the control conditions of the executive function tasks, but performance diverged in the conflict conditions. In a version of the Simon task involving spatial conflict between a target cue and it

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6. Bilingualism and the Development of Executive Function: The Role of Attention

   Ellen Bialystok · 2015 · Child Development Perspectives · 375 cites

   This paper reviews research examining the effect of bilingualism on children's cognitive development, and in particular, executive function. Studies reporting bilingual advantages in various tasks are described with the purpose of identifying the process or executive function component that might be responsible for this bilingual advantage. Several possibilities are discussed, such as inhibitory control. Finally, the role of attention is proposed as a fundamental process that initiates developmental differences in bilingual children from as early as infancy.

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7. The effects of bilingualism on toddlers’ executive functioning

   Diane Poulin‐Dubois, Agnès Blaye, Julie Coutya, et al. · 2010 · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 300 cites

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8. How does bilingualism modify cognitive function? Attention to the mechanism

   E. Bialystok, F. Craik · 2022 · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 211 cites

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