In this article we aimed to assess how Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is neurodegenerative,
affects the linguistic performance of early, high-proficient bilinguals in their two languages. …

In patients with cognitive deficits, brain stimulation has been shown to restore cognition (
Miniussi et al., 2008 , Brain Stimulation, 1, 326). The aim of this study was to assess whether …

Recent studies have demonstrated that patients suffering from frontotemporal lobar
degeneration (FTLD) show impairments in empathy and emotional processing. In this study, we …

INTRODUCTION: While sentence comprehension has been reported to be defective in
frontotemporal dementia (FTD), it is still unclear if this disorder reflects the presence of syntactic …

Several studies have documented the advantage of bilingualism with respect to the development
of the executive control (EC) system. Two effects of bilingualism have been described …

Bilingual speakers are suggested to use control processes to avoid linguistic interference
from the unintended language. It is debated whether these bilingual language control (BLC) …

Background and aims: Growing interest in understanding the relationship between subjective
memory complaints (SMCs) and objective measures of memory abilities emphasizes the …

Word-retrieval difficulties commonly occur in healthy aging. Recent studies report an improved
ability to name pictures after the administration of high-frequency repetitive transcranial …

As studies of bilingual language control (BLC) seek to explore the underpinnings of bilinguals’
abilities to juggle two languages, different types of language switching tasks have been …

Individuals with aphasia frequently show lexical retrieval deficits due to increased interference
of semantically related competitors, a phenomenon that can be observed in tasks such as …