Bilingual Advantage in Executive Functioning Hypothesis - How the Debate Provides Insight Into Psychologys Replication Crisis

This ground-breaking book explores one of the liveliest debates in bilingualism and cognitive psychology. It examines the hypothesis that using two languages leads to enhancement of domain-general executive functioning (EF) and argues that either the bilingual advantage does not exist or is restricted to very specific circumstances.

List of contents

Part I. The Foundation
1. Early Research on the Effects of Bilingualism on Intelligence and Executive Functioning
2. Executive Functioning in the Lab and in Everyday Life
3. Factors that Affect EF and Often Confound Tests of the Bilingual-Advantage in EF Hypothesis
4. What We Think We Know About Bilingual Language Control
Part 2. The Debate Emerges
5. What did Simon Say? A Spark Ignites a Fire
6. The Bilingual Advantage as Enhanced Inhibitory Control
7. Shifting to a Monitoring Account
8. Shifting to an Executive Attention Account
9. Accounts that Emphasize "Adaptations"
10. The Special Role of Language Switching
11. The March of the Mighty Meta-Analyses
12. Problematic Meta-Analyses and Confirmation Bias
13. Mega-Data & Mega-Control: A Small Chapter on Big Data and Extreme Bilinguals
14. The Effects of Bilingualism Over Time and on Aging
15. Are there Bilingual Advantages in Self-Reports of Cognitive Control or Impulsivity?
Part 3. Reconstruction
16. What May Cause the Steady Drip of Positive Findings?
17. In Defense of the Hypothesis: And a Rebuttal
18. The Bialystok & Craik (2022) "New and Improved" Attentional Control Theory
19. Why Cognitive Neuroscience Can't Resolve the Debate
20. Is there an advantage? How should we decide? Why might there be no advantage?
Name index
Subject inde

About the author

Kenneth Paap is Professor of Psychology who currently directs the Language, Attention and Cognitive Engineering lab at San Francisco State University, USA. He has previously served for 30 years as a Professor, Department Head, and Dean at New Mexico State University.

Summary

This ground-breaking book explores one of the liveliest debates in bilingualism and cognitive psychology. It examines the hypothesis that using two languages leads to enhancement of domain-general executive functioning (EF) and argues that either the bilingual advantage does not exist or is restricted to very specific circumstances.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Paap
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032311005
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231100-5
• No. of pages: 14
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Sociolinguistics, Educational psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Communication Studies, Psycholinguistics, Literature: history & criticism, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Literature: history and criticism, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics