1. Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond: questions and insights / Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian -- Part I. Beyond simple relations: 2. The signal and the noise: Finding the pattern in human behavior / Ellen Bialystok -- 3. Variation in language experience shapes the consequences of bilingualism / Megan Zirnstein, Kinsey Bice and Judith F. Kroll -- 4. Adaptive control and brain plasticity: A multidimensional account of the bilingual experience and its relation to cognition / Anne L. Beatty-Martønez and Paola E. Dussias -- 5. Comparing executive functions in monolinguals and bilinguals: Considerations on participant characteristics and statistical assumptions in current research / Veronica Whitford and Gigi Luk -- 6. Cooking pasta in La Paz: Bilingualism, bias and the replication crisis / Thomas H. Bak -- 7. Interference control in bilingual auditory sentence processing in noise / Jungna Kim, Klara Marton and Loraine K. Obler -- Part II. Language processing: 8. Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals: The case of morphological priming / Harald Clahsen and João Verøssimo -- 9. Referring expressions and executive functions in bilingualism / Antonella Sorace -- 10. Language control and executive control: Can studies on language processing distinguish the two? / Anna Wolleb, Antonella Sorace and Marit Westergaard -- 11. Effects of dense code-switching on executive control / Julia Hofweber, Theodoros Marinis and Jeanine Treffers-Daller -- 12. Predicting executive functions in bilinguals using ecologically valid measures of code-switching behavior / Julia Hofweber, Theodoros Marinis and Jeanine Treffers-Daller -- 13. Research on individual differences in executive functions: Implications for the bilingual advantage hypothesis / Naomi P. Friedman -- 14. Does performance on executive function tasks correlate? Evidence from child trilinguals, bilinguals, and second language learners / Gregory J. Poarch and Janet G. van Hell -- Part III. Cognition and bilingualism: 15. Putting together bilingualism and executive function / Virginia Valian -- 16. What cognitive processes are likely to be exercised by bilingualism and does this exercise lead to extra-linguistic cognitive benefits? / Raymond M. Klein -- 17. Executive control in bilingual children: Factors that influence the outcomes / Klara Marton -- 18. Interactions among speed of processing, cognitive control, age, and bilingualism / Klara Marton and Zhamilya Yerimbetova -- 19. Teasing apart factors influencing executive function performance in bilinguals and monolinguals at different ages / Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Enlli Mon Thomas, Nestor Vinas Guasch, Ivan Kennedy, Cynog Prys, Nia Young, Emily J. Roberts, Emma K. Hughes and Leah Jones -- Part IV. Development, aging, and impairment: 20. Proficient bilingualism may alleviate some executive function difficulties in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders / Aparna Nadig and Ana Maria Gonzalez-Barrero -- 21. Does bilingualism protect against cognitive aging? Methodological issues in research on bilingualism, cognitive reserve, and dementia incidence / Caitlin Wei-Ming Watson, Jennifer J. Manly and Laura B. Zahodne.
Summary:
The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often called executive function or executive control). Current research, as exemplified in this book, advances the study of the effects of bilingualism on executive function by identifying many different ways of being bilingual, exploring the multiple facets of executive function, and developing and analyzing tasks that measure executive function. The papers in this volume (21 chapters), by leading researchers in bilingualism and cognition, investigate the mechanisms underlying the effects (or lack thereof) of bilingualism on cognition in children, adults, and the elderly. They take us beyond the standard, classical, black-and-white approach to the interplay between bilingualism and cognition by presenting new methods, new findings, and new interpretations.
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