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Ellen Bialystok
Researcher at York University
Publications - 276
Citations - 38791
Ellen Bialystok is an academic researcher from York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Cognitive development. The author has an hindex of 95, co-authored 264 publications receiving 34549 citations. Previous affiliations of Ellen Bialystok include Ontario Institute for Studies in Education & Keele University.
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Bilingualism in development : language, literacy, and cognition
TL;DR: This book explains the process of starting with one language and adding another, and the extent of the bilingual mind.
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Bilingualism, Aging, and Cognitive Control: Evidence From the Simon Task.
TL;DR: It appears, therefore, that controlled processing is carried out more effectively by bilinguals and that bilingualism helps to offset age-related losses in certain executive processes.
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Bilingualism: consequences for mind and brain
TL;DR: This research shows that bilingualism has a somewhat muted effect in adulthood but a larger role in older age, protecting against cognitive decline, a concept known as 'cognitive reserve'.
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Attention and inhibition in bilingual children: evidence from the dimensional change card sort task
TL;DR: The conclusions are that bilinguals have better inhibitory control for ignoring perceptual information than monolinguals do but are not more skilled in representation, confirming the results of the original study.
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Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent*
TL;DR: The authors summarizes research showing that bilingualism affects linguistic and cognitive performance across the lifespan, and that bilingual children control a smaller vocabulary than their monolingual peers and bilingual adults perform more poorly on rapid lexical retrieval tasks.