ReviewAgeing research reviews2016
Aging in two languages: Implications for public health.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Current Research on the Impact of Foreign Language Learning Among Healthy Seniors on Their Cognitive Functions From a Positive Psychology Perspective-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Working Memory as the Focus of the Bilingual Effect in Executive Functions.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Language and cognitive function in children: a narrative review of neural, behavioral, and developmental evidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- The 2022 symposium on dementia and brain aging in low- and middle-income countries: Highlights on research, diagnosis, care, and impact.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Review
- Examining the relation between bilingualism and age of symptom onset in frontotemporal dementia.Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Second language learning in older adults modulates Stroop task performance and brain activation.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Auditory discrimination in aging bilinguals vs. monolinguals with and without hearing loss.Frontiers in aging · 2023Article
- Lifelong bilingualism and mechanisms of neuroprotection in Alzheimer dementia.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- The influence mechanism of parental emotional companionship on children's second language acquisition.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Cognitive and contextual factors modulating grammar learning at older ages.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Poorer clinical outcomes for older adult monolinguals when matched to bilinguals on brain health.Brain structure & function · 2021Article
- Clear Theories Are Needed to Interpret Differences: Perspectives on the Bilingual Advantage Debate.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Review
- Neural Processing Underlying Executive Functions in Bilinguals: "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose".Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Exploring Language Learning as a Potential Tool against Cognitive Impairment in Late-Life Depression: Two Meta-Analyses and Suggestions for Future Research.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Enhancing Cognitive Performance of Healthy Czech Seniors through Non-Native Language Learning-A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Neuropsychological assessment of mild cognitive impairment in Latinx adults: A scoping review.Neuropsychology · 2020Article
- Cognitive control regions are recruited in bilinguals' silent reading of mixed-language paragraphs.Brain and language · 2020Article
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Abstract
With the population aging and a dramatic increase in the number of senior citizens, public health systems will be increasingly burdened with the need to deal with the care and treatment of individuals with dementia. We review evidence demonstrating how a particular experience, bilingualism, has been shown to protect cognitive function in older age and delay onset of symptoms of dementia. This paper describes behavioral and brain studies that have compared monolingual and bilingual older adults on measures of cognitive function or brain structure and reviews evidence demonstrating a protective effect of bilingualism against symptoms of dementia. We conclude by presenting some data showing the potential savings in both human costs in terms of demented patients and economic considerations in terms of public money if symptoms of dementia could be postponed.
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