ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2022
Bilingualism and Aging: Implications for (Delaying) Neurocognitive Decline.
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- Evidence for bilingualism as a cognitive reserve factor in biomarker-confirmed Alzheimer's disease.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Rethinking language, cognition and assessment in psychosis: How bilingualism challenges psychiatry and how natural language processing can help.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Language switching ability and executive function development in English learners: a longitudinal investigation of bilingual cognitive control.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- A multilingual guide to slowing aging.Nature aging · 2025Article
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- Sex as a Determinant of Age-Related Changes in the Brain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- The Relationship between Physical Activity, Physical Fitness, Cognition, and Academic Outcomes in School-Aged Latino Children: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Brain gray matter morphometry relates to onset age of bilingualism and theory of mind in young and older adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Bilingualism and Structural Network Organization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Resilience in Neurologic Disease.Neurology · 2023Observational
- The Nuance of Bilingualism as a Reserve Contributor: Conveying Research to the Broader Neuroscience Community.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Bilingual neurocognitive resiliency, vulnerability, and Alzheimer's disease biomarker correlates in Latino older adults enrolled in the Health and Aging Brain Study - Health Disparities (HABS-HD).Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Article
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Abstract
As a result of advances in healthcare, the worldwide average life expectancy is steadily increasing. However, this positive trend has societal and individual costs, not least because greater life expectancy is linked to higher incidence of age-related diseases, such as dementia. Over the past few decades, research has isolated various protective "healthy lifestyle" factors argued to contribute positively to cognitive aging, e.g., healthy diet, physical exercise and occupational attainment. The present article critically reviews neuroscientific evidence for another such factor, i.e., speaking multiple languages. Moreover, with multiple societal stakeholders in mind, we contextualize and stress the importance of the research program that seeks to uncover and understand potential connections between bilingual language experience and cognitive aging trajectories, inclusive of the socio-economic impact it can have. If on the right track, this is an important line of research because bilingualism has the potential to cross-over socio-economic divides to a degree other healthy lifestyle factors currently do not and likely cannot.
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