Are bilingual advantages dependent upon specific tasks or specific bilingual experiences?

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Examining the effects of active versus inactive bilingualism on executive control in a carefully matched non-immigrant sample (2015, unknown): “Paap, Johnson, and Sawi (2014) analysed 76 studies conducted after Hilchey and Klein’s review (2011).”
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances. (2015, methodology): “As Paap, Johnson, and Sawi (2014) discussed a critical assumption of ANCOVA is that the covariate and groups are independent (Miller & Chapman, 2001).”
No compelling evidence for a bilingual advantage in switching or that frequent language switching reduces switch cost (2017, background): “5 B+ ns Prior and Gollan (2011) Spanish–English bilinguals 41 20.”
The Advantages of Bilingualism Debate (2019, unknown): “They have also argued that differences in neural measures must always be accompanied by analogous differences in behavioral data (Paap et al. 2014; 2015a,b; 2017).”