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Bilingual Cognition

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Paper1989

Neurolinguists, Beware! The Bilingual Is Not Two Monolinguals in One Person

François Grosjean

Argues a bilingual's two languages form one integrated system rather than two separate monolingual competences bolted together, so bilinguals should be studied on their own terms rather than benchmarked against monolingual norms.

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Paper2012

Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind and Brain

Ellen Bialystok, Fergus I. M. Craik & Gigi Luk

Reviews behavioural and neuroimaging evidence that managing two languages reshapes the executive-control networks used for non-linguistic attention and inhibition, and that this reshaping later delays the onset of dementia symptoms.

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Neurolinguists, Beware! The Bilingual Is Not Two Monolinguals in One Person

Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind and Brain

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