Table of contents
Chapter 1.Bilingualism, executive function, and beyond: Questions and insights
1
Part I.Beyond simple relations
Chapter 2.The signal and the noise: Finding the pattern in human behavior
17
Chapter 3.Variation in language experience shapes the consequences of bilingualism
35
Chapter 4.Adaptive control and brain plasticity: A multidimensional account of the bilingual experience and its relation to cognition
49
Chapter 5.Comparing executive functions in monolinguals and bilinguals: Considerations on participant characteristic and statistical assumptions in current research
67
Chapter 6.Cooking pasta in La Paz: Bilingualism, bias and the replication crisis
81
Part II.Language processing
Chapter 7.Interference control in bilingual auditory sentence processing in noise
103
Chapter 8.Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals: The case of morphological priming
117
Chapter 9.Referring expressions and executive functions in bilingualism
131
Chapter 10.Language control and executive control: Can studies on language processing distinguish the two?
147
Chapter 11.Effects of dense code-switching on executive control
161
Chapter 12.Predicting executive functions in bilinguals using ecologically valid measures of code-switching behavior
181
Part III.Cognition and bilingualism
Chapter 13.Research on individual differences in executive functions: Implications for the bilingual advantage hypothesis
209
Chapter 14.Does performance on executive function tasks correlate? Evidence from child trilinguals, bilinguals, and second language learners
223
Chapter 15.Putting together bilingualism and executive function
237
Chapter 16.What cognitive processes are likely to be exercised by bilingualism and does this exercise lead to extra-linguistic cognitive benefits?
247
Part IV.Development, aging, and impairment
Chapter 17.Executive control in bilingual children: Factors that influence the outcomes
265
Chapter 18.Interactions among processing speed, cognitive control, age, and bilingualism
281
Chapter 19.Teasing apart factors influencing executive function performance in bilinguals and monolinguals at different ages
295
Chapter 20.Proficient bilingualism may alleviate some executive function difficulties in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
337
Chapter 21.Does bilingualism protect against cognitive aging?: Methodological issues in research on bilingualism, cognitive reserve, and dementia incidence
355
Index
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