ArticleQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2022
Trajectories of verbal fluency and executive functions in multilingual and monolingual children and adults: A cross-sectional study.
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- Does bilingualism come with linguistic costs? A meta-analytic review of the bilingual lexical deficit.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Pooled it
- Is there a cognitive advantage in inhibition and switching for bilingual children? A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Associations Between Second-Language Proficiency and Executive Functions in Autistic and Neurotypical Children.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
- The Effect of Age on Post-Stroke Language Outcomes.Journal of aging research · 2026Article
- Phonemic verbal fluency in non-WEIRD populations: Demographic differences in performance in the Controlled Oral Word Association Test-FAS.African journal of psychological assessment · 2024Article
- Executive functioning and verbal fluency performance in youth with Down syndrome.Research in developmental disabilities · 2022Article
- Modulatory effects of SES and multilinguistic experience on cognitive development: a longitudinal data analysis of multilingual and monolingual adolescents from the SCAMP cohort.International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism · 2022Article
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Abstract
The development of verbal fluency is associated with the maturation of executive function skills, such as the ability to inhibit irrelevant information, shift between tasks, and hold information in working memory. Some evidence suggests that multilinguistic upbringing may underpin disadvantages in verbal fluency and lexical retrieval, but can also afford executive function advantages beyond the language system including possible beneficial effects in older age. This study examined the relationship between verbal fluency and executive function in 324 individuals across the lifespan by assessing the developmental trajectories of English monolingual and multilingual children aged 7-15 years (
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