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Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond: questions and insights / edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin, Virginia Valian. — 1 online resource. — (Studies in bilingualism). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2156440.pdf>.

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Subject: Bilingualism — Psychological aspects.; Cognition.; Executive functions (Neuropsychology); Bilingualism — Psychological aspects.; Cognition.; Executive functions (Neuropsychology); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

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Table of Contents

  • Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • 1. Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond
    • 1. Past
    • 2. Present
    • 3. This volume
    • 4. Future: Where is the field going?
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Part I. Beyond simple relations
    • 2. The signal and the noise
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Reaction time tasks and language experience
      • 3. Defining bilingualism
      • 4. What the numbers mean
      • 5. Selecting the measure
      • Conclusions
      • References
    • 3. Variation in language experience shapes the consequences of bilingualism
      • 1. Introduction
        • 1.1 Characterizing the dynamics of bilingual cognitive control
        • 1.2 Variation in adult language learning
        • 1.3 Variation in bilingual language processing
        • 1.4 Variation in bilingual language production
        • 1.5 Variation in bilingual language- and code-switching
      • 2. Summary and conclusions
      • Acknowledgements
      • References
    • 4. Adaptive control and brain plasticity
      • 1. Introduction
        • 1.1 Bilingual language activation
        • 1.2 Bilingual language adaptation
      • 2. The cognitive underpinnings of the consequences of bilingualism
        • 2.1 Inhibition-based approaches
        • 2.2 Conflict monitoring approaches
      • 3. Towards an ecological approach to bilingualism
      • Acknowledgements
      • References
    • 5. Comparing executive functions in monolinguals and bilinguals
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Bilingualism and executive functions
        • 2.1 Cross-language activation
        • 2.2 Attending to multiple competing language systems
      • 3. Two implicit assumptions in current research
      • 4. Conclusions and future directions
      • References
    • 6. Cooking pasta in La Paz
      • 1. Controversy, conspiracy, or consensus?
      • 2. Are bilinguals better lovers? Myths, misconceptions, and false dichotomies
        • 2.1 People are either monolingual or bilingual
        • 2.2 Either all or nothing, either good or bad
        • 2.3 Bilingualism prevents dementia
        • 2.4 Either chicken or egg
        • 2.5 Bilingualism, bilingualism, and nothing but bilingualism
      • 3. Bilingualism and the “replication crisis”
      • 4. Cooking pasta in La Paz: Why different studies produce different results
      • Acknowledgements
      • References
  • Part II. Language processing
    • 7. Interference control in bilingual auditory sentence processing in noise
      • 1. Introduction
        • 1.1 Mechanisms of interference control in auditory processing in noise
          • 1.1.1 Taxonomies of interference control
          • 1.1.2 Selective attention for auditory processing in noise
      • 2. Interference in auditory processing
        • 2.1 Noise affecting bottom-up linguistic processing and the role of contextual knowledge
        • 2.2 Noise affecting top-down linguistic processing
        • 2.3 Interference in bilingual auditory processing
          • 3.1.1 Sources of interference in bilingual listening
      • 3. Bilingual advantage in auditory processing in noise
        • 3.3 Potential roles of L2 proficiency and other related variables
      • 4. Conclusion and implications
      • References
    • 8. Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Morphological processing in bilinguals
      • 3. Linguistic background: Inflection vs. derivation
      • 4. Morphological priming
      • 5. Data analysis techniques: Non-linear effects of age of acquisition
      • 6. Concluding remarks
      • References
    • 9. Referring expressions and executive functions in bilingualism
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Anaphoric expressions in bilinguals
      • 3. Potential explanations
      • 4. Conclusion
      • References
    • 10. Language control and executive control
      • 1. Bilingual language processing and cognition
      • 2. Syntactic priming as a research tool
      • 3. Does inhibition play a role in cross-language priming?
      • 4. Method
        • 4.1 The priming task
        • 4.2 The cognitive task
        • 4.3 Coding
      • 5. Results
        • 5.1 The bilingual group
        • 5.2 The bilingual vs. the monolingual group
        • 5.3 Interaction between Noswitch and DCCS
      • 6. Discussion and conclusion
      • References
    • 11. Effects of dense code-switching on executive control
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Code-switching and its impact on executive function
      • 4. Method
        • 4.1 Participants
        • 4.2 Tasks
          • 4.2.1 Frequency Judgment task
          • 4.2.2 Flanker task
      • 5. Results
        • 5.1 Frequency judgment task
        • 5.2 EC task performance in the flanker task by group
          • 5.2.1 Group comparison for monitoring cost
          • 5.2.2 Group comparison for the conflict effect
        • 5.3 Correlations between code-switching and EC performance
          • 5.3.1 Correlation between code-switching and conflict effect
          • 5.3.2 Correlation between code-switching and monitoring cost
      • 6. Discussion
      • 7. Conclusion
      • Acknowledgements
      • References
    • 12. Predicting executive functions in bilinguals using ecologically valid measures of code-switching behavior
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Method
        • 2.1 Participants
        • 2.2 Tasks
          • 2.2.1 Frequency judgment task
          • 2.2.2 The bilingual emails
          • 2.2.3 Flanker task
      • 3. Results
        • 3.1 Group differences in code-switching
          • 3.1.1 Frequency judgment task
          • 3.1.2 Email production task
        • 3.2 Regression analyses
        • 3.3 Executive performance in the flanker task
      • 4. Discussion
      • 5. Conclusion
      • References
  • Part III. Cognition and bilingualism
    • 13. Research on individual differences in executive functions
      • 1. Measuring EFs
        • 1.1 Individual tasks
        • 1.2 Latent variables
        • 1.3 Recommendations
      • 2. Multi-component nature of EFs
        • 2.1 Unity and diversity
        • 2.2 No inhibition-specific ability
        • 2.3 Recommendations
      • 3. Summary
      • Acknowledgments
      • References
    • 14. Does performance on executive function tasks correlate?
      • 1. Introduction
        • 1.1 Executive function
        • 1.2 Experimental paradigms to test executive function
        • 1.3 Studies correlating executive function tasks
        • 1.4 Executive function and bilingualism
      • 2. The present study
        • 2.1 Correlational analyses: Simon task and ANT
          • Within-task correlations
          • Cross-task correlations
      • 3. Discussion
      • 4. Conclusion
      • Acknowledegments
      • References
    • 15. Putting together bilingualism and executive function
      • Acknowledgments
      • References
    • 16. What cognitive processes are likely to be exercised by bilingualism and does this exercise lead to extra-linguistic cognitive benefits?
      • 1. Some pertinent personal history
      • 2. Some pertinent history from the literature: From Peal and Lambert to Bialystok
      • 3. Are there extra-linguistic cognitive benefits of multilingual mastery?
        • 3.1 What cognitive processes are likely to be exercised in bilingualism?
        • 3.2 Circa 2011: Bilingual inhibitory control advantage (BICA)?
        • 3.3 Circa 2011: Bilingual executive processing advantage (monitoring, BEPA)?
        • 3.4 2015: Update on BICA and BEPA
        • 3.5 2015: Bilingual Switching Advantage (BSA)?
      • 4. Summary & conclusion
        • 4.1 Some lessons from history
        • 4.2 In conclusion
      • References
  • Part IV. Development, aging, and impairment
    • 17. Executive control in bilingual children
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Participant characteristics and individual differences
      • 3. Differences in target functions
      • 4. Task types and measurement issues
      • 5. Summary
      • Acknowledgement
      • References
    • 18. Interactions among speed of processing, cognitive control, age, and bilingualism
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Factors contributing to individual differences in speed of processing
        • 2.1 Speed of processing and cognitive control
        • 2.2 Speed of processing and age
        • 2.3 Speed of processing and bilingualism
      • 3. Summary and conclusions
      • References
    • 19. Teasing apart factors influencing executive function performance in bilinguals and monolinguals at different ages
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. This study
        • 2.1 Method
          • 2.1.1 Participants
          • 2.1.2 Stimuli
        • 2.2 Results
          • 2.2.1 Correlations
          • 2.2.2 Regressions
      • 3. Discussion
      • Acknowledgments
      • References
    • 20. Proficient bilingualism may alleviate some executive function difficulties in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. Language in children with ASD and bilingual context
        • 2.1 Definition of terms: Proficient bilinguals
      • 3. Executive Functions in people with ASD
        • 3.1 Dissociations between performance and rating measures of EF – which measure to prioritize when investigating potential effects of bilingualism?
      • 4. The effects of proficient bilingualism on EF performance in children with ASD
        • 4.1 Sample characterization
        • 4.2 Verbal fluency
        • 4.3 Dimensional Change Card Sort task
        • 4.4 Parent ratings on the BRIEF
        • 4.5 Relation between VF and DCCS in our larger sample
      • 5. Conclusion
      • References
    • 21. Does bilingualism protect against cognitive aging?
      • 1. Introduction
      • 2. The current research landscape of AD studies
      • 3. Study design, causal inference, and confounding factors
      • 4. Operationalizing bilingualism for research on cognitive aging and dementia
      • 5. Predicting cognitive level versus age-related cognitive change
      • 6. Incorporating brain structural variables
      • 7. Summary and methodological recommendations
      • References
  • Author index
  • Subject index

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