ReviewPsychological bulletin2017
The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.
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194 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Cognitive Advantage of Bilingualism Over Monolingualism in Older Adults: A Meta-Analysis.Current Alzheimer research · 2022Pooled it
- The Bilingual Advantage in Children's Executive Functioning Is Not Related to Language Status: A Meta-Analytic Review.Psychological science · 2021Pooled it
- Is there a bilingual advantage on interference-control tasks? A multiverse meta-analysis of global reaction time and interference cost.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Pooled it
- Does Language Distance Modulate the Contribution of Bilingualism to Cognitive Reserve in Seniors? A Systematic Review.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasPooled it
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- Cognitive and Neural Preservation in Older Language Learners: The CNPOLL Framework.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Review
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- Modulations of the P3b effect as a function of bilingual language experience.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The interactive effect of L2 proficiency and interpreting experience on cognitive control.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Bilingualism in Context: A Bayesian Psychometric Network Analysis of Language and Culture Among U.S. Heritage Spanish-English Speakers of Latin American Descent.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Similarities (and Differences) in the Learning Patterns of Single-Word Reading of an Alphabetic Orthography in Monolingual and Bilingual Primary School Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Neural signatures of word learning: How individual differences shape ERPs and oscillations in the early stages of learning a new language.Neuropsychologia · 2026Article
- Bilingual language processing relies on shared semantic representations that are modulated by each language.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Missing the Mix: Perceiving Code-Switches as a Mechanism for Bilingual Adaptation.Child development perspectives · 2026Article
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Abstract
According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep connections between linguistic and nonlinguistic processing, it would not be surprising to find that there are interactions between bilingualism and cognitive and brain processes. The present review uses the framework of experience-dependent plasticity to evaluate the evidence for systematic modifications of brain and cognitive systems that can be attributed to bilingualism. The review describes studies investigating the relation between bilingualism and cognition in infants and children, younger and older adults, and patients, using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Excluded are studies whose outcomes focus primarily on linguistic abilities because of their more peripheral contribution to the central question regarding experience-dependent changes to cognition. Although most of the research discussed in the review reports some relation between bilingualism and cognitive or brain outcomes, several areas of research, notably behavioral studies with young adults, largely fail to show these effects. These discrepancies are discussed and considered in terms of methodological and conceptual issues. The final section proposes an account based on "executive attention" to explain the range of research findings and to set out an agenda for the next steps in this field. (PsycINFO Database Record
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