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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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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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...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2015.
The aim of this thesis was to study the effect of bilingualism and language switching on working memory capacity. Research in bilingualism and cognition highlighted that both languages from a bilingual individual are always activated (e.g., Hoshino & Kroll, 2008). According to the Inhibition Control model (Green, 1998), a bilingual person has to inhibit the language not required in order to speak...
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