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Voluntary language switching: When and why do bilinguals switch between their languages?
(Journal of Memory and Language, 2018)
Bilingual language switching has been studied extensively in cued picture naming paradigms, instructing bilinguals
when to switch between languages. However, in daily life, bilinguals often switch freely, without ...
Metaphors We Learn By: Directed motor action improves word learning
(COGNITION, 2019)
Can performing simple motor actions help people learn the meanings of words? Here we show that placing vocabulary flashcards in particular locations after studying them helps students learn the definitions of novel words ...
Effects of age on inhibitory control are affected by task-specific features
(Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018)
Older adults have been argued to have impoverished inhibitory control compared to younger adults. However, these effects of age may depend on processing speed and their manifestation may furthermore depend on the type of ...
Is Bilingualism Associated With Enhanced Executive Functioning in Adults? A Meta-Analytic Review
(Psychological Bulletin, 2018)
Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive investigation, there is, however, no consensus ...
Exploring Different Types of Inhibition During Bilingual Language Production
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2018)
Multilinguals have to control their languages constantly to produce accurate verbal output. They have to inhibit possible lexical competitors not only from the target language, but also from non-target languages. Bilinguals’ ...
Not All Bilinguals Are the Same: A Call for More Detailed Assessments and Descriptions of Bilingual Experiences
(Behavioral Sciences, 2019)
No two bilinguals are the same. Differences in bilingual experiences can affect
language-related processes but have also been proposed to modulate executive functioning. Recently,
there has been an increased interest in ...
Differences in word learning in children: Bilingualism or linguistic experience?
(Applied Psycholinguistics, 2021)
The current study examines how monolingual children and bilingual children with languages
that are orthotactically similar and dissimilar learn novel words depending on their
characteristics. We contrasted word learning ...
Changes in the Sensitivity to Language-Specific Orthographic Patterns With Age
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2020)
How do bilingual readers of languages that have similar scripts identify a language
switch? Recent behavioral and electroencephalographic results suggest that they rely
on orthotactic cues to recognize the language of ...
The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning
(PLOS ONE, 2020)
Learning new content and vocabulary in a foreign language can be particularly difficult. Yet,
there are educational programs that require people to study in a language they are not
native speakers of. For this reason, ...
Second-language word recognition in noise: Interdependent neuromodulatory effects of semantic context and crosslinguistic interactions driven by word form similarity
(NeuroImage, 2021)
Spoken language comprehension is a fundamental component of our cognitive skills. We are quite proficient at deciphering words from the auditory input despite the fact that the speech we hear is often masked by noise such ...