Researchers in Spain report that bilinguals are faster and more efficient in certain tasks in which executive functions are used due to a different form of cerebral control. The research group of ...

Aneta Karagiannidou and Yiotis Katsambas never questioned whether they would speak Greek to their 7-year-old son, Mihalis, whom the couple is raising in Los Angeles. While census data show a ...

SINGAPORE — One of the Republic’s largest preschool operators is joining hands with researchers to boost understanding of how children develop bilingual competence in early childhood, and form racial ...

UC Santa Cruz faculty are leading two new collaborative programs funded by grants from UC’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) program. Ecologist Erika Zavaleta leads an effort ...

Bilingualism is naturally very useful in communication between people, but a new meta-analysis shows that it does not seem to increase the cognitive skills related to executive functions. Acquisition ...

Affecting more than one in a hundred children, autism spectrum disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. It has a particular impact on social interaction, including difficulties ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. Like any other area of research, the study of bilingualism is a difficult enterprise, and one of the greatest pleasures of academic life is to read papers whose authors ...

The paper by Canadian researchers suggests that bilingual people have higher cognitive reserves as they get older. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...

Shortly after Kathy Jones relocated to California, the retired professor decided she needed to learn to speak Spanish. “When I moved to San Diego, I would see all these young kids, mostly Latino kids, ...

Bilingualism and language perception research has radically reshaped our understanding of cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying linguistic processing. Contemporary studies demonstrate that ...

In addition to enabling us to communicate with others, languages are our instrument for conveying our thoughts, identity, knowledge, and how we see and understand the world. Having a command of more ...