Effect of language proficiency and executive control on verbal fluency performance in bilinguals

Working Memory Capacity: Is There a Bilingual Advantage?

“…The results have been inconsistent with some researchers reporting equivalent performance for monolinguals and bilinguals (e.g., Luo, Luk, & Bialystok, 2010;Martin-Rhee & Bialystok, 2008), others reporting a monolingual advantage (e.g., Bialystok, 2010), and still others reporting a bilingual advantage (e.g., Bialystok, et al, 2008;Morales, Calvo, & Bialystok, 2013).…”

The Lexical Stroop Sort (LSS) picture-word task: A computerized task for assessing the relationship between language and executive functioning in school-aged children

“…Much of the research investigating the developmental trajectory of the abilities underlying EF has been focused on pinpointing the development of memory (Baddeley, 1986), attention (Lan et al, 2011), inhibition (Carlson, Moses, & Breton, 2002;Carlson, Moses, & Hix, 1998;Frye, Zelazo, & Burack, 1998), or language (Kirkham, Cruess, & Diamond, 2003;Luo, Luk, & Bialystok, 2010). The findings have been mixed, however, resulting in little agreement as to which processes are most influential in the development of EF (Baddeley, 1986;Carlson et al, 2002;Carlson et al, 1998;Frye et al, 1998;Kirkham et al, 2003;Marcovitch & Zelazo, 2009).…”

Sources of individual differences in the speed of naming objects and actions: The contribution of executive control

“…In the ageing literature, age-related declining inhibiting abilities have been associated with increased lexical competition effects in both spoken word recognition and production (e.g., Taler, Aaron, Steinmetz, & Pisoni, 2010). Finally, in studies of bilingualism, fluent bilinguals performed better in a letter fluency task than monolinguals, which was attributed to enhanced executive control abilities in bilinguals compared with monolinguals (e.g., Festman, Rodriguez-Fornells, & Münte, 2010;Luo, Luk, & Bialystok, 2010). Based on these findings, one might expect that variations in executive control ability within a group of healthy adults could also be related to differences in speech production.…”