Abstract Whereas growing evidence supports the advantages of bilingualism for brain structure and function, no study has shown multilingual-related neuroplasticity in response to speech stimuli at subcortical level. To investigate impact multilingualism on auditory processing, evoked (speech-ABR) was recorded 35 young adults. The multilingual group completed language experience proficiency ques...

This study sheds light on the effect of bilingualism working memory performance. It aims to investigate whether bilingual speakers have an advantage over monolingual in performing visual-spatial tasks. The present attempts be a contribution discussion how performance is affected by bilingualism. tries find out Arabic-English advantages Arabic Two experiments were conducted test bilinguals and m...

Abstract Sentence reading involves constant competition between lexical candidates. Previous research with monolinguals has shown that the neighbours of a read word are inhibited, making their retrieval as subsequent target more difficult, but duration this interference may depend on skills. In study, we examined neighbour priming effects in sentence among proficient Norwegian–English bilingual...

Abstract Bilingual children have better Theory-of-Mind compared to monolingual children, but comparatively little research has examined whether this advantage in social cognitive ability also applies adults. The current study investigated multilingual status and/or number of known languages predicts performance on a mentalizing task large sample adult participants. Multilingualism was decompose...

Learning about what young children with limited spoken language know about the grammar of their language is extremely challenging. Researchers have traditionally used looking behavior as a measure of language processing and to infer what overt choices children might make. However, these methods are expensive to setup, require specialized training, are time intensive for data analysis and can ha...

The present study sought to explain why bilingual speakers are disadvantaged relative to monolingual speakers when it comes to speech understanding in noise. Exemplar models of the mental lexicon hold that each encounter with a word leaves a memory trace in long-term memory. Words that we encounter frequently will be associated with richer phonetic representations in memory and therefore recogn...