On the bilingual advantage in conflict processing: now you see it, now you don't.

By Albert Costa, Mireia Hernández, Jordi Costa-Faidella, Núria Sebastián-Gallés. Cognition, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Understanding the Consequences of Bilingualism for Language Processing and Cognition (2013, background): “Thus, Costa et al. (2009) argue that the bilingual advantage is in ‘‘monitoring’’ and Bialystok (2011) attributes the advantage to ‘‘coordination’’.”
Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes (2011, methodology): “Costa et al. (2009) also drew a link to conflict monitoring, and Bialystok (2006) wrestled with a conceptually similar but somewhat distal idea of online monitoring.”
Dual mechanisms of cognitive control in bilinguals and monolinguals (2013, background): “Importantly, recent proposals (Bialystok, Craik, & Luk, 2012; Costa et al., 2009) suggest that the bilingual advantage may not be explained by a single process but by the dynamic combination of these 2 types of executive control mechanisms (proactive/monitoring and reactive/inhibition).”
Where is the bilingual advantage in task-switching? (2013, background): “…studies comparing bilinguals and monolinguals in conflict resolution tasks where bilinguals showed faster response latencies regardless of the type of trials (conflicting, non-conflicting) (e.g. Bialystok, 2006; Costa et al., 2008, 2009; Hernández et al., 2012; Martin-Rhee & Bialystok, 2008).”
Bridging language and attention: Brain basis of the impact of bilingualism on cognitive control (2010, background): “…to establish the appropriate response set to each stimulus, a strategy that would facilitate performance in conflict tasks (Bialystok and Martin, 2004; Bialystok and Viswanathan, 2009; Carlson and Meltzoff, 2008; Costa et al., 2008, 2009; Hernández et al., 2010; Martin-Rhee and Bialystok, 2008).”
The influence of language-switching experience on the bilingual executive control advantage* (2015, background): “Our results therefore seem to support the suggestion of Costa et al. (2009) that bilingual advantages may not only relate to conflict resolution (Bialystok et al., 2006), but generalise to overall performance (Bialystok et al., 2004; Costa et al., 2008).”
Bilingualism and cognition (2014, background): “Another hypothesis, based on the idea that bilinguals must monitor which language is appropriate in a given context, was monitoring (e.g., Costa et al., 2009).”
Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging (2014, background): “For example, Costa and colleagues found that the bilingual advantage is specific to executive control tasks that are maximally demanding (e.g., Costa et al., 2009), and Kroll and Bialystok (2013) have argued that bilingual advantages might be more about general mental flexibility than any specific…”
Bilingual Minds (2009, background): “…that a bilingual advantage should be found in working memory, given the previously reviewed evidence suggesting that bilinguals have an advantage in set maintenance (e.g., Colzato et al., 2008) and in the related abilities of monitoring (Costa et al., 2009) and updating (Hernández et al., 2010).”