Cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants

By Á. Kovács, Jacques Mehler. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Bilingualism and cognition (2014, background): “Among the experiments showing beneficial effects of bilingualism in children is a study comparing 7-month-olds who were exposed only to Italian with 7-month-olds exposed to both Italian and another language (usually Slovenian – Kovács & Mehler, 2009).”
Early childhood bilingualism leads to advances in executive attention: Dissociating culture and language* (2011, result): “It will also converge with recent results suggesting bilingual cognitive control benefits in infants as young as seven months (Kovács & Mehler, 2009).”
Understanding the Consequences of Bilingualism for Language Processing and Cognition (2013, background): “It is of interest to note that the evidence for crib bilinguals suggests that there may indeed be an early attentional enhancement that results from multiple language exposure early in life (e.g., Kovács & Mehler, 2009; Sebastian-Gallés, Albareda-Castellot, Weikum, & Werker, 2012).”
Juggling Two Languages in One Mind (2008, result): “However, one result that refutes such a claim comes from a comparison of 7-month-old monolingual and bilingual infants (Kov!acs & Mehler, 2009).”
Bilingual Minds (2009, background): “A recent study by Kovacs and Mehler (2009b) provides dramatic evidence for the very early appearance of a bilingual advantage in 7-month-old infants.”
Conclusions about Interventions, Programs, and Approaches for Improving Executive Functions that appear Justified and those that, despite much hype, do not (2015, background): “Burning questions that are calling out for answers from research It is clear that EFs can indeed be improved and that is true at all ages from infants (e.g., Kovács and Mehler, 2009) through elders (e.g., Williams and Lord, 1997).”
Executive Functions (2012, neutral): “Exposure to bilingual input has been one of the foci, though not the only focus, of work on accelerating the development of EFs in infants (Kovács & Mehler 2009, Wass et al. 2011).”
The Advantages of Bilingualism Debate (2019, methodology): “Remarkably, bilingual advantages have been observed in memory generalization in 18-month-olds (Brito & Barr 2012), and in attention switching in 7-month-old preverbal infants using an eye-tracking paradigm (Kovács & Mehler 2009).”
Parental language mixing: Its measurement and the relation of mixed input to young bilingual children's vocabulary size* (2012, background): “Studies comparing monolingual and bilingual infants as young as 7 and 12 months of age have shown that bilinguals are better able than monolinguals to switch between strategies (Kovács & Mehler, 2009a) and are more able to learn two rules at the same time (Kovács & Mehler, 2009b).”
Young Bilingual Children's Heightened Sensitivity to Referential Cues (2011, background): “Even bilingual infants, as young as 7 months old, show an early gain in cognitive flexibility and control (Kovacs & Mehler, 2009 ).”
Executive function in the first three years of life: precursors, predictors and patterns (2016, background): “Only a subset of infants were able to do this, all of whom were bilingually-raised infants (Kovacs & Mehler, 2009).”
A Bilingual Advantage in Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy (2012, background): “Recent findings that preverbal infants who are learning two languages outperform those who are learning one language in both multiple-rule learning (Kovács & Mehler, 2009b) and inhibitory-control tasks (Kovács & Mehler, 2009a) indicate that some precursors are already in place before infants start…”
Dual language exposure and early bilingual development* (2011, background): “…in the context of other evidence that bilingualism is associated with cognitive advantages from infancy through old age (Bialystok, 2005; 2007; Kovács & Mehler, 2009b) and that adolescents who are proficient in their family’s heritage languages enjoy psychosocial and academic benefits as a…”
Being of two minds: Switching mindsets exhausts self-regulatory resources (2011, background): “Even preverbal infants from bilingual homes show different decision making patterns than preverbal infants from monolingual homes (Kovacs & Mehler, 2009).”