Cognitive control involves multifaceted top-down attentional functions that detect, monitor, and resolve conflict in order to facilitate goal-oriented behavior in daily life circumstances (Miller & Cohen, 2001). According to theories of cognitive development in bilinguals, cognitive control processes in bilinguals have adapted to meet the language demands of their transactional environment, leading to structural and functional differences in the brain (Green & Abutalebi, 2013;Grundy et al., 2017;Vinerte & Sabourin, 2019). When bilinguals speak in one language, there is activation of the representation of the object or concept in their other language, which can create interference in processing the message
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