Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes

By Matthew D. Hilchey, Raymond M. Klein. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The Bilingual Adaptation: How Minds Accommodate Experience (2017, background): “…for bilingual processing underlying performance on executive function tasks is monitoring has been proposed by both Costa et al. (2009) and Hilchey and Klein (2011), and the increased efficiency and structure of the ACC in bilinguals has also been reported (Abutalebi et al., 2012;…”
Individual differences in inhibitory control relate to bilingual spoken word processing* (2013, background): “…competition during spoken language processing (e.g., Bialystok, 2005, Chapter 20; Kroll, 2008; see Hervais-Adelman, Moser-Mercer, & Golestani, 2011, for a review of neuroimaging and neuropsychology examining the role of cognitive control in the bilingual brain; but see also Hilchey & Klein, 2011).”
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances. (2015, background): “In reviewing the research with children Hilchey and Klein (2011) concluded that there was no evidence for bilingual advantages in inhibitory control obtained with the Simon task: across six different comparisons there were no significance differences in the magnitude of the interference effect, but…”
Bilingualism is not a categorical variable: Interaction between language proficiency and usage (2013, background): “Accumulating research in the last decade has demonstrated reliable positive cognitive outcomes for bilingualism(Adesope, Lavin, Thompson, & Ungerleider, 2010, for meta-analysis with children; Hilchey & Klein, 2011, for a review with adults).”
Bilingualism and cognition (2014, background): “…of bilingualism on executive function, and the inconsistencies in those effects, have been extensively reviewed (e.g., Adesope, Lavin, Thompson & Ungerleider; 2010; Bialystok, 2011; Bialystok et al., 2012; Costa & Sebastián-Gallés, 2014; Hilchey & Klein, 2011; Kroll & Bialystok, 2013; Paap, 2014).”
Are bilingual advantages dependent upon specific tasks or specific bilingual experiences? (2014, background): “In contrast to the results with measures of inhibitory control, Hilchey and Klein (2011) reported that “In young adults, the global RT advantage is detected ubiquitously on spatial Stroop and flanker interference tasks, though seemingly not in the Simon task” (p. 645).”
Understanding the Consequences of Bilingualism for Language Processing and Cognition (2013, background): “The unimodal bilinguals in the Emmorey, Luk, et al. study were also faster overall, a point that has been discussed in the recent literature (e.g., Hilchey & Klein, 2011).”
Moving toward a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging (2014, background): “Bialystok and colleagues replicated these findings in bilingual younger adults and in bilingual older adults, which we discuss in more detail in later sections (Bialystok et al., 2004, 2008; Colzato et al., 2008; Hilchey & Klein, 2011; Prior & MacWhinney, 2010; Rubio-Fernandez & Glucksberg, 2012).”
Where is the bilingual advantage in task-switching? (2013, background): “flanker task, task-switching) (see Hilchey and Klein’s (2011) for a similar argument associating bilinguals faster overall RTs with a general processing advantage).”
Dual mechanisms of cognitive control in bilinguals and monolinguals (2013, background): “Indeed, this type of single-process account has difficulty explaining the differential performance of bilingual and monolingual young adults in executive control tasks in terms of inhibitory control (see Hilchey & Klein, 2011, for a review, and our own results considering the stop-signal task).”
The role of componential analysis, categorical hypothesising, replicability and confirmation bias in testing for bilingual advantages in executive functioning (2014, background): “…such that supporting one invalidates the other” (p. 499), and then provide several examples of researchers who allegedly have engaged in the practice; “Hilchey and Klein (2011) assemble evidence from studies showing no bilingual advantage on simple inhibition tasks and then use that result to…”
Language control in bilinguals: The adaptive control hypothesis (2013, background): “In reviewing accounts of research on bilingual advantages in cognitive control tasks, Hilchey and Klein (2011) distinguished accounts that emphasise control processes that maintain a task goal and monitor for conflict over those that emphasise the need to inhibit competing representations.”
Examining the effects of active versus inactive bilingualism on executive control in a carefully matched non-immigrant sample (2015, positive): “Hilchey and Klein (2011) suggested that bilinguals may have an advantage in more global conflict monitoring processes rather than conflict resolution.”