Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage : : Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve / / Maurits Van den Noort, Peggy M. P. C. Bosch, Esli Struys.

• VerfasserIn: Noort, Maurits Van den,; Bosch, Peggy M. P. C.,; Struys, Esli,
• TeilnehmendeR: Bosch, Peggy M. P. C.,; Struys, Esli,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)

The number of bilingual and multilingual speakers around the world is steadily growing, leading to the questions: How do bilinguals manage two or more language systems in their daily interactions, and how does being bilingual/multilingual affect brain functioning and vice versa? Previous research has shown that cognitive control plays a key role in bilingual language management. This hypothesis is further supported by the fact that foreign languages have been found to affect not only the expected linguistic domains, but surprisingly, other non-linguistic domains such as cognitive control, attention, inhibition, and working memory. Somehow, learning languages seems to affect executive/brain functioning. In the literature, this is referred to as the bilingual advantage, meaning that people who learn two or more languages seem to outperform monolinguals in executive functioning skills. In this Special Issue, we first present studies that investigate the bilingual advantage. We also go one step further, by focusing on factors that modulate the effect of bilingualism on cognitive control. In the second, smaller part of our Special Issue, we focus on the cognitive reserve hypothesis with the aim of addressing the following questions: Does the daily use of two or more languages protect the aging individual against cognitive decline? Does lifelong bilingualism protect against brain diseases, such as dementia, later in life?

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editors -- Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage-Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve -- Does the Bilingual Advantage in Cognitive Control Exist and If So, What Are Its Modulating Factors? A Systematic Review -- The Effect of Cognates on Cognitive Control in Late Sequential Multilinguals: A Bilingual Advantage? -- Attention Network in Interpreters: The Role of Training and Experience -- Relationship between Language Dominance and Stimulus-Stimulus or Stimulus-Response Inhibition in Uyghur-Chinese Bilinguals with an Investigation of Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs -- Shifting Gear in the Study of the Bilingual Advantage: Language Switching Examined as a possible Moderator -- Sequential Multilingualism and Cognitive Abilities: Preliminary Data on the Contribution of Language Proficiency and Use in Different Modalities -- Attentional Fluctuations, Cognitive Flexibility, and Bilingualism in Kindergarteners -- Self-Concepts in Reading and Spelling among Mono- and Multilingual Children: Extending the Bilingual Advantage -- Attentional Control in Bilingualism: An Exploration of the Effects of Trait Anxiety and Rumination on Inhibition -- Not All Bilinguals Are the Same: A Call for More Detailed Assessments and Descriptions of Bilingual Experiences -- A Bilingual Advantage? An Appeal for a Change in Perspective and Recommendations for Future Research -- A Systematic Review on the Possible Relationship Between Bilingualism, Cognitive Decline, and the Onset of Dementia -- The Bidirectional in Bilingual: Cognitive, Social and Linguistic Effects of and on Third-Age Language Learning.