In today's world, more and more people have begun to learn a second language. It has been
shown that their native language is also activated when second language learners intend to�…

In the past 20 years, the field of bilingualism has made a substantial effort to better
understand the set of cognitive mechanisms that allow bilinguals to functionally manage and�…

The current special issue presents the state of the art on the topics of both bilingual
language control and executive function, with a particular focus on how bilingualism and�…

A key question in bilingual language production research is how bilingual individuals control
the use of their two languages. The psycholinguistic literature concerning language control�…

In this chapter, we outline a novel approach to investigating the relation between
bilingualism and executive functioning that may circumvent some limitations of previous�…

In the past decade, there has been an upsurge of research on bilingualism. A theme in this
work is that the bilingual's two languages are always active, at times converging with one�…

It has been documented that conflict adaptation (conflict resolution in a task enhanced by
that in a previous task) exists not only in the same domain but also across different domains�…

Speaking more than one language demands a language control system that allows
bilinguals to correctly use the intended language adjusting for possible interference from the�…

The effect of bilingual experience on cognitive control has been intensively examined in the
past two decades, but empirical studies have provided inconsistent findings about the�…

For bilinguals, speaking and listening are assisted by complex control processes including
conflict monitoring and inhibition. However, the extent to which these processes adapt to�…