ArticleJournal of neurolinguistics2015
Beyond the bilingual advantage: The potential role of genes and environment on the development of cognitive control.
Article in Journal of neurolinguistics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Genetic bases of language control in bilinguals: Evidence from an EEG study.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has a domain-specific impact on bilingual language control.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2021Article
- The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood.Brain structure & function · 2020Article
- Inconsistency of findings due to low power: A structural MRI study of bilingualism.Brain and language · 2019Article
- Does the Bilingual Advantage in Cognitive Control Exist and If So, What Are Its Modulating Factors? A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Neuroemergentism: Response to Commentaries.Journal of neurolinguistics · 2019Article
- Neuroemergentism: A Framework for Studying Cognition and the Brain.Journal of neurolinguistics · 2019Article
- Different Features of Bilingualism in Relation to Executive Functioning.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Verbal and Nonverbal Anticipatory Mechanisms in Bilinguals.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2018Article
- Becoming a balanced, proficient bilingual: Predictions from age of acquisition & genetic background.Journal of neurolinguistics · 2018Article
- The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.Psychological bulletin · 2017Review
- Individual differences in the bilingual brain: The role of language background andJournal of neurolinguistics · 2016Article
- The importance of neuroscience in understanding bilingual cognitive control.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2015Review
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Abstract
In recent years there has been considerable debate about the presence or absence of a bilingual advantage in tasks that involve cognitive control. Our previous work has established evidence of differences in brain activity between monolinguals and bilinguals in both word learning and in the avoidance of interference during a picture selection task. Recent models of cognitive control have highlighted the importance of a set of neural structures that may show differential tuning due to exposure to two languages. There is also evidence that genetic factors play a role in the availability of dopamine in neural structures involved in cognitive control. Thus, it is important to investigate whether there are interactions effects generating variability in language acquisition when attributed to genetic (e.g., characteristics of dopamine turnover) and environmental (e.g., exposure to two languages) factors. Here preliminary results from genotyping of a sample of bilingual and monolingual individuals are reported. They reveal different distributions in allele frequencies of the DRD2/ANKK1 taq1A polymorphism. These results bring up the possibility that bilinguals may exhibit additional flexibility due to differences in genetic characteristics relative to monolinguals. Future studies should consider genotype as a possible contributing factor to the development of cognitive control across individuals with different language learning histories.
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