Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve

• Main Author: Van den Noort, Maurits (auth)
• Other Authors: Struys, Esli (auth), Bosch, Peggy M.P.C (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Psychology; cognitive effects; orienting; interpreting; language use; Attentional Control Theory; cognitive abilities; modulating factors; shifting; cognitive reserve hypothesis; cognates; executive functions; disengagement of attention; self-reports; inhibitory control; bilingual experiences; rumination; bilingual language dominance; early childhood; eye tracking; dementia; executive control; orthographic neighbors; individual differences; switching; academic achievement; reading fluency; cognitive decline; bilingualism; alerting; Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition; Stroop task; cognitive control; language switching; trait anxiety; German as a foreign language; interactional contexts; speed-accuracy trade-off; language proficiency; spelling; metacognition; inhibition; Stimulus-Response inhibition; cognitive flexibility; onset; third-age language learning; attention network; multilingualism; domain-specific self-concept; reading comprehension; bilingual advantage; translation; multilingual children; attention; aging; executive functioning; methodology; controlled language processing; longitudinal studies; executive function
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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 ha...