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- Title
Reshaping the Mind: The Benefits of Bilingualism.
- Authors
Bialystok, Ellen
- Abstract
Studies have shown that bilingual individuals consistently outperform their monolingual counterparts on tasks involving executive control. The present paper reviews some of the evidence for this conclusion and relates the findings to the effect of bilingualism on cognitive organisation and to conceptual issues in the structure of executive control. Evidence for the protective effect of bilingualism against Alzheimer's disease is presented with some speculation about the reason for that protection.
- Subjects
ALZHEIMER'S disease prevention; ANALYSIS of variance; COGNITION; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPLASTICITY; RESEARCH funding; TASK performance
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale, 2011, Vol 65, Issue 4, p229
- ISSN
1196-1961
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/a0025406