Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve
The number of bilingual and multilingual speakers around the world is steadily growing, leading to the questions: How do bilinguals manage two or more language systems in their daily interactions, and how does being bilingual/multilingual affect brain functioning and vice versa? Previous research ha...
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| author | Van den Noort, Maurits Struys, Esli Bosch, Peggy M.P.C. |
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| description | The number of bilingual and multilingual speakers around the world is steadily growing, leading to the questions: How do bilinguals manage two or more language systems in their daily interactions, and how does being bilingual/multilingual affect brain functioning and vice versa? Previous research has shown that cognitive control plays a key role in bilingual language management. This hypothesis is further supported by the fact that foreign languages have been found to affect not only the expected linguistic domains, but surprisingly, other non-linguistic domains such as cognitive control, attention, inhibition, and working memory. Somehow, learning languages seems to affect executive/brain functioning. In the literature, this is referred to as the bilingual advantage, meaning that people who learn two or more languages seem to outperform monolinguals in executive functioning skills. In this Special Issue, we first present studies that investigate the bilingual advantage. We also go one step further, by focusing on factors that modulate the effect of bilingualism on cognitive control. In the second, smaller part of our Special Issue, we focus on the cognitive reserve hypothesis with the aim of addressing the following questions: Does the daily use of two or more languages protect the aging individual against cognitive decline? Does lifelong bilingualism protect against brain diseases, such as dementia, later in life? |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-501462024-03-29T08:01:22Z Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve Van den Noort, Maurits Struys, Esli Bosch, Peggy M.P.C. BF1-990 cognitive effects orienting interpreting language use Attentional Control Theory cognitive abilities modulating factors shifting cognitive reserve hypothesis cognates executive functions disengagement of attention self-reports inhibitory control bilingual experiences rumination bilingual language dominance early childhood eye tracking dementia executive control orthographic neighbors individual differences switching academic achievement reading fluency cognitive decline bilingualism alerting Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition Stroop task cognitive control language switching trait anxiety German as a foreign language interactional contexts speed-accuracy trade-off language proficiency spelling metacognition inhibition Stimulus-Response inhibition cognitive flexibility onset third-age language learning attention network multilingualism domain-specific self-concept reading comprehension bilingual advantage translation multilingual children attention aging executive functioning methodology controlled language processing longitudinal studies executive function bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology The number of bilingual and multilingual speakers around the world is steadily growing, leading to the questions: How do bilinguals manage two or more language systems in their daily interactions, and how does being bilingual/multilingual affect brain functioning and vice versa? Previous research has shown that cognitive control plays a key role in bilingual language management. This hypothesis is further supported by the fact that foreign languages have been found to affect not only the expected linguistic domains, but surprisingly, other non-linguistic domains such as cognitive control, attention, inhibition, and working memory. Somehow, learning languages seems to affect executive/brain functioning. In the literature, this is referred to as the bilingual advantage, meaning that people who learn two or more languages seem to outperform monolinguals in executive functioning skills. In this Special Issue, we first present studies that investigate the bilingual advantage. We also go one step further, by focusing on factors that modulate the effect of bilingualism on cognitive control. In the second, smaller part of our Special Issue, we focus on the cognitive reserve hypothesis with the aim of addressing the following questions: Does the daily use of two or more languages protect the aging individual against cognitive decline? Does lifelong bilingualism protect against brain diseases, such as dementia, later in life? 2021-02-11T16:08:01Z 2021-02-11T16:08:01Z 2020-04-07 23:07:08 2020 book 44741 9783039281053 9783039281046 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50146 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2015 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03928-105-3 10.3390/books978-3-03928-105-3 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039281053 9783039281046 264 open access |
| spellingShingle | BF1-990 cognitive effects orienting interpreting language use Attentional Control Theory cognitive abilities modulating factors shifting cognitive reserve hypothesis cognates executive functions disengagement of attention self-reports inhibitory control bilingual experiences rumination bilingual language dominance early childhood eye tracking dementia executive control orthographic neighbors individual differences switching academic achievement reading fluency cognitive decline bilingualism alerting Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition Stroop task cognitive control language switching trait anxiety German as a foreign language interactional contexts speed-accuracy trade-off language proficiency spelling metacognition inhibition Stimulus-Response inhibition cognitive flexibility onset third-age language learning attention network multilingualism domain-specific self-concept reading comprehension bilingual advantage translation multilingual children attention aging executive functioning methodology controlled language processing longitudinal studies executive function bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology Van den Noort, Maurits Struys, Esli Bosch, Peggy M.P.C. Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve |
| title | Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve |
| title_full | Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve |
| title_fullStr | Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve |
| title_full_unstemmed | Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve |
| title_short | Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve |
| title_sort | individual variation and the bilingual advantage factors that modulate the effect of bilingualism on cognitive control and cognitive reserve |
| topic | BF1-990 cognitive effects orienting interpreting language use Attentional Control Theory cognitive abilities modulating factors shifting cognitive reserve hypothesis cognates executive functions disengagement of attention self-reports inhibitory control bilingual experiences rumination bilingual language dominance early childhood eye tracking dementia executive control orthographic neighbors individual differences switching academic achievement reading fluency cognitive decline bilingualism alerting Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition Stroop task cognitive control language switching trait anxiety German as a foreign language interactional contexts speed-accuracy trade-off language proficiency spelling metacognition inhibition Stimulus-Response inhibition cognitive flexibility onset third-age language learning attention network multilingualism domain-specific self-concept reading comprehension bilingual advantage translation multilingual children attention aging executive functioning methodology controlled language processing longitudinal studies executive function bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
| topic_facet | BF1-990 cognitive effects orienting interpreting language use Attentional Control Theory cognitive abilities modulating factors shifting cognitive reserve hypothesis cognates executive functions disengagement of attention self-reports inhibitory control bilingual experiences rumination bilingual language dominance early childhood eye tracking dementia executive control orthographic neighbors individual differences switching academic achievement reading fluency cognitive decline bilingualism alerting Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition Stroop task cognitive control language switching trait anxiety German as a foreign language interactional contexts speed-accuracy trade-off language proficiency spelling metacognition inhibition Stimulus-Response inhibition cognitive flexibility onset third-age language learning attention network multilingualism domain-specific self-concept reading comprehension bilingual advantage translation multilingual children attention aging executive functioning methodology controlled language processing longitudinal studies executive function bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
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