TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van den Noort, Maurits
AU  - Struys, Esli
AU  - Bosch, Peggy M.P.C.
AB  - 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?
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03928-105-3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 44741
KW  - cognitive effects
KW  - orienting
KW  - interpreting
KW  - language use
KW  - Attentional Control Theory
KW  - cognitive abilities
KW  - modulating factors
KW  - shifting
KW  - cognitive reserve hypothesis
KW  - cognates
KW  - executive functions
KW  - disengagement of attention
KW  - self-reports
KW  - inhibitory control
KW  - bilingual experiences
KW  - rumination
KW  - bilingual language dominance
KW  - early childhood
KW  - eye tracking
KW  - dementia
KW  - executive control
KW  - orthographic neighbors
KW  - individual differences
KW  - switching
KW  - academic achievement
KW  - reading fluency
KW  - cognitive decline
KW  - bilingualism
KW  - alerting
KW  - Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition
KW  - Stroop task
KW  - cognitive control
KW  - language switching
KW  - trait anxiety
KW  - German as a foreign language
KW  - interactional contexts
KW  - speed-accuracy trade-off
KW  - language proficiency
KW  - spelling
KW  - metacognition
KW  - inhibition
KW  - Stimulus-Response inhibition
KW  - cognitive flexibility
KW  - onset
KW  - third-age language learning
KW  - attention network
KW  - multilingualism
KW  - domain-specific self-concept
KW  - reading comprehension
KW  - bilingual advantage
KW  - translation
KW  - multilingual children
KW  - attention
KW  - aging
KW  - executive functioning
KW  - methodology
KW  - controlled language processing
KW  - longitudinal studies
KW  - executive function
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2015
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50146
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9783039281053
SN  - 9783039281046
TI  - Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reservenull
ER  - 
