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Growing old with two languages : effects of bilingualism on cognitive aging / edited by Ellen Bialystok, Margot D. Sullivan.
- Title
- Growing old with two languages : effects of bilingualism on cognitive aging / edited by Ellen Bialystok, Margot D. Sullivan.
- Publication
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
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- Description
- vi, 304 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This collection brings together two areas of research that are currently receiving great attention in both scientific and public spheres: cognitive aging and bilingualism. With ongoing media focus on the aging population and the need for activities to forestall cognitive decline, experiences that appear effective in maintaining functioning are of great interest. One such experience is lifelong bilingualism. Moreover, research into the cognitive effects of bilingualism has increased dramatically in the past decade, making it an exciting area of study. This volume combines these issues and presents the most recent research and thinking into the effects of bilingualism on cognitive decline in aging. The contributors are all leading scholars in their field. The result is a state-of-the art collection on the effect of bilingualism on cognition in older populations for both healthy aging and aging with dementia. The papers will be of interest to researchers, students, and health professionals.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Bilingualism (SiBil) ; volume 53
- Uniform Title
- Studies in bilingualism v. 53.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The importance of bilingualism for the aging brain: current evidence and future research directionw / Margot D. Sullivan and Ellen Bialystok -- Cognitive problems in older adults: can bilingualism help? / Fergus I.M. Craik -- How aging and bilingualism influence language processing: theoretical and neural models / Eleonora Rossi and Michele Diaz -- Length of residence: does it make a difference in older bilinguals? / Eve Higby and Loraine K. Obler -- Individual differences in cognitive control advantages of elderly late Dutch-English bilinguals / Merel C.J. Keijzer and Monika S. Schmid -- Does bilingual language control decline in older age? / Iva Ivanova, Mayra Murillo, Rosa I. Montoya and Tamar H. Gollan -- Auditory word recognition across the lifespan: links between linguistic and nonlinguistic inhibitory control in bilinguals and monolinguals / Henrike K. Blumenfeld, Scott R. Schroeder, Susan C. Bobb, Max R. Freeman and Viorica Marian -- Executive control processes in verbal and nonverbal working memory: the role of aging and bilingualism / Margot D. Sullivan, Yolanda Prescott, Devora Goldberg and Ellen Bialystok -- Bilingualism, cognitive reserve and alzheimer's disease: a review of findings / Brian T. Gold -- The effect of language skills on dementia in a Swedish longitudinal cohort / Jessica K. Ljungberg, Patrik Hansson, Rolf Adolfsson and Lars-Goran Nilsson -- Bilingualism, cognitive reserve, aging, and dementia: what is the new ground to cover / Alexandre Chauvin, Hilary D. Duncan and Natalie A. Phillips -- The impact of bilingualism on cognitive ageing and dementia: finding a path through a forest of confounding variables / Thomas H. Bak -- History-inspired reflections on the bilingual advantages hypothesis / Debra Titone, Jason Gullifer, Sivaniya Subramaniapillai, Natash Rajah and Shari Baum.
- ISBN
- 9789027241955
- 9027241953
- 9789027241962
- 9027241961
- 9789027265395 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2017012291
- OCLC
- 978487315
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library