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The relationship between linguistic ability, multilingualism, and dementia

van den Noort, Maurits ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Staudte, Heike ; Perriard, Benoît ; Bosch, Peggy ; Lim, Sabina

In: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2019, vol. 72, no. 4, p. 1041–1044

In a recent article of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Hack et al. (2019) argue that linguistic ability rather than multilingualism is a significant predictor of dementia. In their longitudinal study, they investigated 325 religious sisters who were older than 75 years of age. Self-reports were used in order to determine multilingualism. They found that speaking two or three languages...

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A systematic review on the possible relationship between bilingualism, cognitive decline, and the onset of dementia

Noort, Maurits Van den ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Bosch, Peggy ; Staudte, Heike ; Krajenbrink, Trudy ; Jaswetz, Lars ; Struys, Esli ; Yeo, Sujung ; Barisch, Pia ; Perriard, Benoît ; Lee, Sook-Hyun ; Lim, Sabina

In: Behavioral Sciences, 2019, vol. 9, no. 7, p. 81

A systematic review was conducted to investigate whether bilingualism has a protective effect against cognitive decline in aging and can protect against dementia. We searched the Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ERIC databases with a cut-off date of 31 March 2019, thereby following the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) protocol....

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Does the bilingual advantage in cognitive control exist and if so, what are its modulating factors? A systematic review

Noort, Maurits van den ; Struys, Esli ; Bosch, Peggy ; Jaswetz, Lars ; Perriard, Benoît ; Yeo, Sujung ; Barisch, Pia ; Vermeire, Katrien ; Lee, Sook-Hyun ; Lim, Sabina

In: Behavioral Sciences, 2019, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 27

Recently, doubts were raised about the existence of the bilingual advantage in cognitive control. The aim of the present review was to investigate the bilingual advantage and its modulating factors. We searched the Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ERIC databases for all original data and reviewed studies on bilingualism and cognitive control, with a cut-off date of 31 October 2018, thereby...