Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "de Bruin, Angela"
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Behavioral and oscillatory signatures of switch costs in highly proficient bilinguals
Timofeeva, Polina; Quiñones, Ileana; Geng, Shuang; de Bruin, Angela; Carreiras, Manuel; Amoruso, Lucia (NATURE, 2023)Bilinguals with a high proficiency in their first (L1) and second language (L2) often show comparable reaction times when switching from their L1 to L2 and vice-versa (“symmetrical switch costs”). However, the neurophysiological ... -
Changes in the Sensitivity to Language-Specific Orthographic Patterns With Age
Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni; Borragán, María; de Bruin, Angela; Casaponsa, Aina (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 ... -
Clear Theories Are Needed to Interpret Differences: Perspectives on the Bilingual Advantage Debate
de Bruin, Angela; Dick, Anthony Steven; Carreiras, Manuel (Neurobiology of Language, 2021)The heated debate regarding bilingual cognitive advantages remains ongoing. While there are many studies supporting positive cognitive effects of bilingualism, recent meta-analyses have concluded that there is no consistent ... -
Differences in word learning in children: Bilingualism or linguistic experience?
Borragan, Maria; de Bruin, Angela; Havas, Viktoria; de Diego-Balaguer, Ruth; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Vulchanov, Valentin; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (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 ... -
Effects of age on inhibitory control are affected by task-specific features
de Bruin, Angela; Della Sala, Sergio (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 ... -
Examining Bilingual Language Switching Across the Lifespan in Cued and Voluntary Switching Contexts
de Bruin, Angela; Samuel, Arthur G.; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2020)How bilinguals control their languages and switch between them may change across the life span. Furthermore, bilingual language control may depend on the demands imposed by the context. Across 2 experiments, we examined ... -
Exploring Different Types of Inhibition During Bilingual Language Production
Borragan, Maria; Martin, Clara D.; de Bruin, Angela; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (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’ ... -
How do bilinguals switch between languages in different interactional contexts? A comparison between voluntary and mandatory language switching
Jevtović, Mina; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni; de Bruin, Angela (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2020)How bilinguals switch between languages depends on the context. In a voluntary context, bilinguals are free to decide when to switch, whereas in a cued context they are instructed when to switch. While using two languages ... -
Interference between non-native languages during trilingual language production
de Bruin, Angela; Hoversten, Liv J.; Martin, Clara D. (ELSEVIER, 2023)Most research on multilingual language control has focused on a bilingual’s first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Studies on third language (L3) acquisition suggest that, despite the L1 being more proficient, L3 ... -
Is Bilingualism Associated With Enhanced Executive Functioning in Adults? A Meta-Analytic Review
Lehtonen, Minna; Soveri, Anna; Laine, Aini; Järvenpää, Janica; de Bruin, Angela (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 ... -
Metaphors We Learn By: Directed motor action improves word learning
Casasanto, Daniel; de Bruin, Angela (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 ... -
Not All Bilinguals Are the Same: A Call for More Detailed Assessments and Descriptions of Bilingual Experiences
de Bruin, Angela (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 ... -
Perro or txakur? Bilingual language choice during production is influenced by personal preferences and external primes
de Bruin, Angela; Martin, Clara D. (ELSEVIER, 2022)Bilinguals living in a bilingual society continuously need to choose one of their languages to communicate a message. Sometimes, the circumstances (e.g., the presence of a monolingual) dictate language choice. When surrounded ... -
Phonetic and Lexical Crosslinguistic Influence in Early Spanish–Basque–English Trilinguals
Stoehr, Antje; Jevtović, Mina; de Bruin, Angela; Martin, Clara D. (WILEY, 2024)A central question in multilingualism research is how multiple languages interact. Most studies have focused on first (L1) and second language (L2) effects on a third language (L3), but a small number of studies dedicated ... -
Processing of Synonyms and Homographs in Bilingual and Monolingual Speakers
Martin, Clara D.; Pastureau, Romain; Kerr, Emilia; de Bruin, Angela (UBIQUITY PRESS, 2024)Bilinguals have long-lasting experience with cross-language double-mappings (i.e., translation equivalents and interlingual homographs (or false friends)). Considering this, we examined whether bilinguals differ from ... -
Second-language word recognition in noise: Interdependent neuromodulatory effects of semantic context and crosslinguistic interactions driven by word form similarity
Guediche, Sara; de Bruin, Angela; Caballero-Gaudes, Cesar; Baart, Martijn; Samuel, Arthur G. (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 ... -
The BEST Dataset of Language Proficiency
Carreiras, Manuel; de Bruin, Angela; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (Frontiers in Psychology, 2017)... -
The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning
Frances, Candice; de Bruin, Angela; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (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, ... -
Voluntary language switching: When and why do bilinguals switch between their languages?
de Bruin, Angela; Samuel, Arthur G.; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (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 ...