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Methodological Issues in Research on Bilingualism, Cognitive Aging, and Cognitive Reserve Laura Zahodne and Jennifer Manly Studies of the relationship between bilingualism and dementia have yielded discrepant results. This talk will explore four methodological issues that may help to explain these discrepancies, clarify our understanding of the relationship between bilingualism and cognitive function in older […]
What Is Reserve and How Do We Get It? Yaakov Stern, PhD The concept of reserve has been put forward to account for individual differences in susceptibility to age-related brain changes and pathologic changes, such as those that occur in Alzheimer’s disease. The concept of cognitive reserve suggests that the brain actively attempts to cope […]
Do bilingual children perform more efficiently in different experimental tasks than their monolingual peers? Klara Marton Studies on executive functions in bilingual children show mixed findings. Some authors report no group difference between bilingual and monolingual children in executive functions, such as attention control (e.g., Antón et al., 2014), whereas others show superior performance in […]
What Is (Are) Executive Function(s)? Insights From Individual Differences Research Naomi Friedman Executive functions are high-level cognitive processes that enable control over thoughts and actions through their regulation of lower-level processes. They are central to many areas of psychology, including research on psychopathology, development, aging, and bilingualism, to name a few. Yet there is still […]
Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals: The case of morphological priming João Veríssimo & Harald Clahsen (Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, Germany) Much previous work on the advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism has focussed on vocabulary or the processing of simple words. From a linguistic perspective, however, vocabulary is a rather peripheral aspect of the knowledge […]
Referring expressions and executive functions in child and adult bilinguals Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) Reference tracking requires the language user to both infer appropriate pronoun-referent mappings and dynamically update the discourse model following a change of referent status. Recent research on the so-called ‘syntax-pragmatics interface’ (e.g. Sorace & Serratrice 2009; Sorace 2011; 2011; Chamorro, Sorace & Sturt 2015) shows […]
