The ability to speak two languages often marvels monolinguals, although bilinguals report
no difficulties in achieving this feat. Here, we examine how learning and using two�…

Abstract Language switching has been one of the main tasks to investigate language
control, a process that restricts bilingual language processing to the target language. In the�…

The relation between bilingualism and cognition is informative about the connection
between language and mind. From the perspective of language, the question is how�…

To achieve fluent language processing as a bilingual, a dominant theoretical framework
assumes that the nontarget language is inhibited. This assumption is based on several�…

Traditional research in bilingualism has consistently found that switching languages is
effortful, placing demands on neural systems of cognitive control. This finding runs counter to�…

Meuter and Allport (1999) were among the first to implicate an inhibitory mechanism in
bilingual language control. In their study, bilinguals took longer to name a number in the L1�…

A bilingual advantage in a form of a better performance of bilinguals in tasks tapping into
executive function abilities has been reported repeatedly in the literature. However, recent�…

In an ongoing debate, bilingual research currently discusses whether bilingualism enhances
non-linguistic executive control. The goal of this study was to investigate the influence of�…

Controlling multiple languages during speech production is believed to rely on functional
mechanisms that are (at least partly) shared with domain-general cognitive control in early�…

The primary goal of research on the functional and neural architecture of bilingualism is to
elucidate how bilingual individuals' language architecture is organized such that they can�…