TY - GEN AU - Van den Noort,Maurits AU - Struys,Esli AU - Bosch,Peggy M.P.C. TI - Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage - Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve SN - books978-3-03928-105-3 PY - 2020/// PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KW - cognitive effects KW - orienting KW - interpreting KW - language use KW - Attentional Control Theory KW - cognitive abilities KW - modulating factors KW - shifting KW - cognitive reserve hypothesis KW - cognates KW - executive functions KW - disengagement of attention KW - self-reports KW - inhibitory control KW - bilingual experiences KW - rumination KW - bilingual language dominance KW - early childhood KW - eye tracking KW - dementia KW - executive control KW - orthographic neighbors KW - individual differences KW - switching KW - academic achievement KW - reading fluency KW - cognitive decline KW - bilingualism KW - alerting KW - Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition KW - Stroop task KW - cognitive control KW - language switching KW - trait anxiety KW - German as a foreign language KW - interactional contexts KW - speed-accuracy trade-off KW - language proficiency KW - spelling KW - metacognition KW - inhibition KW - Stimulus-Response inhibition KW - cognitive flexibility KW - onset KW - third-age language learning KW - attention network KW - multilingualism KW - domain-specific self-concept KW - reading comprehension KW - bilingual advantage KW - translation KW - multilingual children KW - attention KW - aging KW - executive functioning KW - methodology KW - controlled language processing KW - longitudinal studies KW - executive function N1 - Open Access N2 - The number of bilingual and multilingual speakers around the world is steadily growing, leading to the questions: How do bilinguals manage two or more language systems in their daily interactions, and how does being bilingual/multilingual affect brain functioning and vice versa? Previous research has shown that cognitive control plays a key role in bilingual language management. This hypothesis is further supported by the fact that foreign languages have been found to affect not only the expected linguistic domains, but surprisingly, other non-linguistic domains such as cognitive control, attention, inhibition, and working memory. Somehow, learning languages seems to affect executive/brain functioning. In the literature, this is referred to as the bilingual advantage, meaning that people who learn two or more languages seem to outperform monolinguals in executive functioning skills. In this Special Issue, we first present studies that investigate the bilingual advantage. We also go one step further, by focusing on factors that modulate the effect of bilingualism on cognitive control. In the second, smaller part of our Special Issue, we focus on the cognitive reserve hypothesis with the aim of addressing the following questions: Does the daily use of two or more languages protect the aging individual against cognitive decline? Does lifelong bilingualism protect against brain diseases, such as dementia, later in life? UR - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2015 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50146 ER -