ArticleBilingualism (Cambridge, England)2015
Language dominance and inhibition abilities in bilingual older adults.
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- The Multifaceted Nature of Bilingualism and Attention.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Individual and Sociolinguistic Differences in Language Background Predict Stroop Performance.Frontiers in communication · 2022Article
- Auditory Sentence Processing in Bilinguals: The Role of Cognitive Control.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Experimentally Induced Language Modes and Regular Code-Switching Habits Boost Bilinguals' Executive Performance: Evidence From a Within-Subject Paradigm.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The Effect of Bilingualism on Cue-Based vs. Memory-Based Task Switching in Older Adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Sequential Multilingualism and Cognitive Abilities: Preliminary Data on the Contribution of Language Proficiency and Use in Different Modalities.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Does the Bilingual Advantage in Cognitive Control Exist and If So, What Are Its Modulating Factors? A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.Psychological bulletin · 2017Review
- Bilingualism as a strategy to delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.Clinical interventions in aging · 2017Review
- Uncovering the Mechanisms Responsible for Why Language Learning May Promote Healthy Cognitive Aging.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Review
- Data trimming procedure can eliminate bilingual cognitive advantage.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2016Review
- Does Bilingual Language Control Decline in Older Age?Linguistic approaches to bilingualism · 2016Article
- Do Executive Functions Show a Declining Trend in the 50's in Bilinguals? Evidence from Alternating Verbal Fluency Task.Sage open agingArticle
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Abstract
This study aimed to examine the so-called bilingual advantage in older adults' performance in three cognitive domains and to identify whether language use and bilingual type (dominant vs. balanced) predicted performance. The participants were 106 Spanish-English bilinguals ranging in age from 50 years to 84 years. Three cognitive domains were examined (each by a single test): inhibition (the Simon task), alternating attention (the Trail Making test), and working memory (Month Ordering). The data revealed that age was negatively correlated to performance in each domain. Bilingual type - balanced vs. dominant - predicted performance and interacted with age only on the inhibition measure (the Simon task). Balanced bilinguals showed age-related inhibition decline (i.e., greater Simon effect with increasing age); in contrast, dominant bilinguals showed little or no age-related change. The findings suggest that bilingualism may offer cognitive advantage in older age only for a subset of bilinguals.
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