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Abutalebi, J., & Clahsen, H. (2015). Bilingualism, cognition, and aging. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000741

Abutalebi, J., & Green, D. W. (2016). Neuroimaging of language control in bilinguals: neural adaptation and reserve. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(4), 689-698. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000225

Aguirre, S. (2014). Bilingualism and multilingualism. [video]. (21:44 minutes). TEDxNEIU. Available on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_ekwQyt2k

Anandan, K., & Veezhinathan, M. (2014). Analysis of cognitive load for bilingual subjects. International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 8(1), 18-35. DOI: 10.4018/ijcini.2014010102

Anderson, J. A., Saleemi, S., & Bialystok, E. (2017). Neuropsychological assessments of cognitive aging in monolingual and bilingual older adults. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 43, 17-27. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.08.001

Arredondo, M. M., Kovelman, I., Satterfield, T., Hu, X., Stojanov, L., & Beltz, A. M. (2022). Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children. Brain and Language, 227, 105084. doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105084

Azuh, E., Harwath, D., & Glass, J. (2019). Towards bilingual lexicon discovery from visually grounded speech audio. In Proc. Annual Conference of International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH). DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1718

Bailey, C., Venta, A., & Langley, H. (2020). The bilingual [dis] advantage. Language and Cognition, 12(2), 225-281. doi:10.1017/langcog.2019.43

Backer, K. C., & Bortfeld, H. (2021). Characterizing bilingual effects on cognition: The search for meaningful individual differences. Brain Sciences, 11(1), 81. ttps://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11010081

Bergelson, E., Amatuni, A., Dailey, S., Koorathota, S., & Tor, S. (2019). Day by day, hour by hour: Naturalistic language input to infants. Developmental Science, 22(1), e12715. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12715

Berken, J. A., Gracco, V. L., & Klein, D. (2017). Early bilingualism, language attainment, and brain development. Neuropsychologia, 98, 220-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.08.031

Berroir, P., Ghazi-Saidi, L., Dash, T., Adrover-Roig, D., Benali, H., & Ansaldo, A. I. (2017). Interference control at the response level: Functional networks reveal higher efficiency in the bilingual brain. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 43, 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.09.007

Bhatia, T. K. (2018). Bilingualism and multilingualism. In The Palgrave handbook of applied linguistics research methodology (pp. 681-701). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Blanco, B., Molnar, M., Arrieta, I., Caballero‐Gaudes, C., & Carreiras, M. (2025). Functional brain adaptations during speech processing in 4‐month‐old bilingual infants. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13572. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13572

Bialystok, E. (2025). Beyond executive functioning: rethinking the impact of bilingualism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.12.005

Bialystok, E. (2025). Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A long-term re-evaluation. Brain and Language, 261, 105518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105518

Bialystok, E. (2018). Bilingual education for young children: review of the effects and consequences. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 21(6), 666-679. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2016.1203859

Bialystok, E. (2015). How bilingualism helps the brain. [video]. (1:03:46). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sDYx77hCmI

Bialystok, E., Craik, F. I., & Luk, G. (2012). Bilingualism: consequences for mind and brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(4), 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.03.001

Blanco, B., Molnar, M., Arrieta, I., Caballero‐Gaudes, C., & Carreiras, M. (2025). Functional brain adaptations during speech processing in 4‐month‐old bilingual infants. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13572. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13572

Bice, K., Yamasaki, B. L., & Prat, C. S. (2020). Bilingual language experience shapes resting-state brain rhythms. Neurobiology of Language, 1(3), 288-318. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00014

Birdsong, D. (2018). Plasticity, variability and age in second language acquisition and bilingualism. Frontiers in psychology, 9, 81. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00081

Bonifacci, P., Serena, B., Codeluppi, F., & Peri, B. (2025). A longitudinal study of math skills in heritage bilingual children: profiles of strengths and weaknesses. Psychological Research, 89(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-024-02045-5

Broos, W. P., Duyck, W., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2019). Monitoring speech production and comprehension: Where is the second-language delay?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(7), 1601-1619. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818807447

Bubbico, G., Chiacchiaretta, P., Parenti, M., Di Marco, M., Panara, V., Sepede, G.,... & Perrucci, M. G. (2019). Effects of second language learning on the plastic aging brain: functional connectivity, cognitive decline, and reorganization. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 423. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00423

Buchweitz, A., & Prat, C. (2013). The bilingual brain: Flexibility and control in the human cortex. Physics of Life Reviews, 10(4), 428-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2013.07.020

Byers-Heinlein, K., & Lew-Williams, C. (2013). Bilingualism in the early years: What the science says. LEARNing Landscapes, 7(1), 95–112.

Calabria, M., Costa, A., Green, D. W., & Abutalebi, J. (2018). Neural basis of bilingual language control. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1426(1), 221-235.  DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13879

Cao, F., Kim, S. Y., Liu, Y., & Liu, L. (2014). Similarities and differences in brain activation and functional connectivity in first and second language reading: evidence from Chinese learners of English. Neuropsychologia, 63, 275-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.09.001

Cargnelutti, E., Tomasino, B., & Fabbro, F. (2019). Language brain representation in bilinguals with different age of appropriation of the second language: A meta-analysis of functional imaging studies. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 154. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00154

Casado, A., Walther, J., Wolna, A., Szewczyk, J., Sorace, A., & Wodniecka, Z. (2025). Investigation of long-and short-term adaptations of the bilingual language system to different language environments: Evidence from the ERPs. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 74, 101242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101242

Cerda, V. R., & Wicha, N. Y. (2023). Arithmetic in the bilingual brain: Language of learning and language experience effects on simple arithmetic in children and adults. Mind, Brain, and Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12386

Chen, M., Ma, F., Wu, J., Li, S., Zhang, Z., Fu, Y., ... & Guo, T. (2020). Individual differences in language proficiency shape the neural plasticity of language control in bilingual language production. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 54, 100887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100887

Claussenius‐Kalman, H., Vaughn, K. A., Archila‐Suerte, P., & Hernandez, A. E. (2020). Age of acquisition impacts the brain differently depending on neuroanatomical metric. Human Brain ;apping, 41(2), 484-502. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24817

Collins, P., & Ho, T.T. (2020).  Bilingualism and biliteracy. In P. Collins, P., & T.T. Ho’s Oxford research encyclopedia of education. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.876

Cerda, V. R., Suárez-Pellicioni, M., Booth, J. R., & Wicha, N. Y. (2024). Arithmetic in two languages: Localizing simple multiplication processing in the adult bilingual brain. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00199

Cheung, P., Bourque, T., Ang, D., & Merkley, R. (2025). Early number acquisition in bilingual children. Cognitive Development, 73, 101541.

Comstock, L. (2024). The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks: A review of bilingual neuroimaging meta-analyses. Brain and Language, 249, 105377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105377

Costa, A. (2020). The bilingual brain: And what it tells us about the science of language. Penguin UK.

Costa, A., & Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2014). How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15(5), 336-345. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3709

Costandi, M. (2024). Bilingual exposure counts early on. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(24)00292-6

Costumero, V., Marin-Marin, L., Calabria, M., Belloch, V., Escudero, J., Baquero, M.,.. & Ávila, C. (2020). A cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures. Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 12(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-020-0581-1

Declerck, M., Wen, Y., Snell, J., Meade, G., & Grainger, J. (2020). Unified syntax in the bilingual mind. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(1), 149-154. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01666-x

Della Rosa, P. A., Videsott, G., Borsa, V. M., Catricalà, E., Pecco, N., Alemanno, F., ... & Abutalebi, J. (2025). The neurodevelopmental dynamics of multilingual experience during childhood: A longitudinal behavioral, structural, and functional MRI study. Brain Sciences, 15(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15010054

Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). Thinking outside the box: The brain-bilingualism relationship in the light of early neurobiological variability. Brain and Language, 211, 104879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104879

Del Maschio, N., & Abutalebi, J. (2018). Neurobiology of bilingualism. Bilingual cognition and language: The state of the science across its subfields, (pp. 325-345). In D. Miller, F. Bayram, J. Rothman & L. Serratrice, (Eds.). (2018). Bilingual cognition and language: the state of the science across its subfields (Vol. 54). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., Fedeli, D., Ramanujan, K., Ding, G., Weekes, B. S.,... & Abutalebi, J. (2019). ACC sulcal patterns and their modulation on cognitive control efficiency across lifespan: A neuroanatomical study on bilinguals and monolinguals. Cerebral Cortex, 29(7), 3091-3101. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy175

DeLuca, V., Segaert, K., Mazaheri, A., & Krott, A. (2020). Understanding bilingual brain function and structure changes? U Bet! A Unified Bilingual Experience Trajectory model. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 56, 100930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100930

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., & Pliatsikas, C. (2019). Linguistic immersion and structural effects on the bilingual brain: a longitudinal study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(5), 1160-1175. doi:10.1017/S1366728918000883

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., Bialystok, E., & Pliatsikas, C. (2019). Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(15), 7565-7574. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811513116

DeLuca, V., Voits, T., Ni, J., Carter, F., Rahman, F., Mazaheri, A., ... & Segaert, K. (2024). Mapping individual aspects of bilingual experience to adaptations in brain structure. Cerebral Cortex, 34(2), bhae029. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae029

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., Bialystok, E., & Pliatsikas, C. (2020). Duration and extent of bilingual experience modulate neurocognitive outcomes. NeuroImage, 204, 116222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116222

Dewaele, J. M., Chen, X., Padilla, A. M., & Lake, J. (2019). The flowering of positive psychology in foreign/second language teaching and acquisition research. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2128. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02128

Diamond, J. (2010). The benefits of multilingualism . Science, 330(6002), 332-333.

Díaz-Lago, M., & Matute, H. (2019). Thinking in a foreign language reduces the causality bias. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818755326

Dornyei, Z. (2020). Innovations and challenges in language learning motivation. Routledge.

Dörnyei, Z. (2019). Psychology and language learning: The past, the present and the future. Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 1(1), 27-41. http://jpll.org/index.php/journal/article/view/dornyei

Dornyei, Z. (2019). Towards a better understanding of the L2 Learning Experience, the Cinderella of the L2 motivational self system. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 9(1), 19-30. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7820-1254

Duñabeitia, J. A., Dimitropoulou, M., Dowens, M. G., Molinaro, N., & Martin, C. (2016). The electrophysiology of the bilingual brain. In Methods in bilingual reading comprehension research (pp. 265-312). Springer New York.

Durgunoğlu, A. Y., & Xu, H. (2020, April). Basic research on learning, cognition, and emotion and its implications for language teaching. In International Forum of Teaching and Studies,16(2), 39-75. American Scholars Press, Inc..

Felker, E. R., Klockmann, H. E., & De Jong, N. H. (2019). How conceptualizing influences fluency in first and second language speech production. Applied Psycholinguistics, 40(1), 111-136. doi:10.1017/S0142716418000474

Felton, A., Vazquez, D., Ramos-Nunez, A. I., Greene, M. R., Macbeth, A., Hernandez, A. E., & Chiarello, C. (2017). Bilingualism influences structural indices of interhemispheric organization. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 42, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.10.004

Feng, J. (2024). Cognitive development in a bilingual environment: To explore the effects of L1 And L2 use on early cognitive performance in children. Educational Administration: Theory and Practice, 30(4), 3673-3683. https://doi.org/10.53555/kuey.v30i4.2105

Festman, J. (2021). Learning and processing multiple languages: The more the easier?. Language Learning.  https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12437

Filippi, R., D’Souza, D., & Bright, P. (2018). A developmental approach to bilingual research: The effects of multi-language experience from early infancy to old age. International Journal of Bilingualism, 1367006917749061. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006917749061

Foy, J. G., & Mann, V. A. (2014). Bilingual children show advantages in nonverbal auditory executive function task. International Journal of Bilingualism, 18(6), 717-729. DOI: 10.1177/1367006912472263

Fromont, L. A., Royle, P., & Steinhauer, K. (2020). Growing Random Forests reveals that exposure and proficiency best account for individual variability in L2 (and L1) brain potentials for syntax and semantics. Brain and Language, 204, 104770. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104770

Gallo, F., Terekhina, L., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2024). Neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve effects in the Caudate Nucleus of young bilingual adults. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 27(1), 107-116. doi:10.1017/S1366728923000457

Gao, F., Hua, L., Armada-da-Silva, P., Zhang, J., Li, D., Chen, Z., Wang, C., Du, M., & Yuan, Z. (2023). Shared and distinct neural correlates of first and second language morphological processing in bilingual brain. Npj Science of Learning, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00184-9

Garbin, G., Sanjuan, A., Forn, C., Bustamante, J. C., Rodríguez-Pujadas, A., Belloch, V.,... & Ávila, C. (2010). Bridging language and attention: Brain basis of the impact of bilingualism on cognitive control. NeuroImage, 53(4), 1272-1278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.078

García, Li, & Li, Wei. (2016). Translanguaging : Language, bilingualism and education. New York, NY: Routledge.

Garcia‐Castro, G., Avila‐Varela, D. S., Castillejo, I., & Sebastian‐Galles, N. (2025). Cognate beginnings to bilingual lexical acquisition. Child Development, 96(1), 286-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14170

Garcia-Sierra, A., Rivera-Gaxiola, M., Percaccio, C. R., Conboy, B. T., Romo, H., Klarman, L.,... & Kuhl, P. K. (2011). Bilingual language learning: An ERP study relating early brain responses to speech, language input, and later word production. Journal of Phonetics, 39(4), 546-557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2011.07.002

Gardner-Chloros, P. (2025). Bilingualism. MIT Press.

Gaullaudet University. (2012). Bilingualism and the brain. [video]. (6:42 minutes). Author.

Gianola, M., Llabre, M. M., & Losin, E. A. R. (2024). Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19(1), nsad074. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad074

Gold, C. E. (2018). Exploring the resting state neural activity of monolinguals and late and early bilinguals .

Grant, A., Dennis, N. A., & Li, P. (2014). Cognitive control, cognitive reserve, and memory in the aging bilingual brain. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(1401), 10-3389. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01401

Groba, A., De Houwer, A., Obrig, H., & Rossi, S. (2019). Bilingual and monolingual first language acquisition experience differentially shapes children’s property term learning: Evidence from behavioral and neurophysiological measures. Brain Sciences, 9(2), 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9020040

Hamman-Ortiz, L., & Romero, D. (2025). Translanguaging as mediated praxis: A comparative case study of bilingual and monolingual teachers experimenting with translanguaging pedagogy. Teaching and Teacher Education, 156, 104878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104878

Hammer, K. (2019). Bilingual cogito: inner speech in acculturated bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22(5), 576-592. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2017.1285862

Hee, A. C. Y., & Lee, B. T. F. (2025). Historical, philosophical and psychological dimensions of bilingualism: Cognitive and neurological perspectives. Academic Journal of Psychology and Counseling, 6(1). [preprint].

Hervais-Adelman, A. G., Moser-Mercer, B., & Golestani, N. (2011). Executive control of language in the bilingual brain: integrating the evidence from neuroimaging to. Bilingualism and Cognitive Control, 29. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00234

Hoff, E., Core, C., Place, S., Rumiche, R., Señor, M., & Parra, M. (2012). Dual language exposure and early bilingual development. Journal of Child Language, 39(01), 1-27. doi: 10.1017/S0305000910000759

Hoff, E., Welsh, S., Place, S., & Ribot, K. (2014). Properties of dual language input that shape bilingual development and properties of environments that shape dual language input. In T. Grüter & J. Paradis, (Eds.). Input and experience in bilingual development (Vol. 13). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Hosoda, C., Tanaka, K., Nariai, T., Honda, M., & Hanakawa, T. (2013). Dynamic neural network reorganization associated with second language vocabulary acquisition: A multimodal imaging study. The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(34), 13663-13672. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0410-13.2013

Huang, W., & Kim, M. S. (2024). Leveraging educational neuroscience for multiliteracies in L2 adult learning: A literature review. EdMedia+ Innovate Learning, 1040-1045.

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Jasinska, K. K., & Petitto, L. A. (2013). How age of bilingual exposure can change the neural systems for language in the developing brain: a functional near infrared spectroscopy investigation of syntactic processing in monolingual and bilingual children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 87-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2013.06.005

Jiao, L., Wang, Z., Duan, X., Yu, Y., & Liu, C. (2025). Linking context to language switching: Effects of background noise on bilingual language comprehension. Behavioral Sciences, 15(1), 60. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15010060

Jiao, L., Schwieter, J. W., & Liu, C. (2025). Comprehension-based language switching in experienced and newly learned languages: Evidence from induced brain oscillations. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 73, 101232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2024.101232

Jończyk, R., Boutonnet, B., Musiał, K., Hoemann, K., & Thierry, G. (2016). The bilingual brain turns a blind eye to negative statements in the second language. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-016-0411-x

Jones, Ō. P., Green, D. W., Grogan, A., Pliatsikas, C., Filippopolitis, K., Ali, N.,... & Seghier, M. L. (2011). Where, when and why brain activation differs for bilinguals and monolinguals during picture naming and reading aloud. Cerebral Cortex, bhr161. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhr161

Klein, D., Mok, K., Chen, J. K., & Watkins, K. E. (2014). Age of language learning shapes brain structure: a cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals. Brain and Language, 131, 20-24.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.05.014

Kogan, B., García-Marco, E., Birba, A., Cortés, C., Melloni, M., Ibáñez, A., & García, A. M. (2020). How words ripple through bilingual hands: Motor-language coupling during L1 and L2 writing. Neuropsychologia, 146, 107563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107563

Kovelman, I., & Marks, R. (2019). Tracking qualitative changes in cognition and brain development through bilingualism. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, 255. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.06.002

Kovelman, I., Shalinsky, M. H., Berens, M. S., & Petitto, L. A. (2014). Words in the bilingual brain: an fNIRS brain imaging investigation of lexical processing in sign-speech bimodal bilinguals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00606

Kroll, J. F. (2024). The bilingual mental lexicon. In The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition, morphosyntax, and semantics (pp. 47-60). Routledge.  ISBN9781003412373

Kuhl, P. K., & Ramirez, N. F. (2016). Bilingual language learning in children. Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Institute of Learning.

Kuhl, P. K., Stevenson, J., Corrigan, N. M., van den Bosch, J. J., Can, D. D., & Richards, T. (2016). Neuroimaging of the bilingual brain: Structural brain correlates of listening and speaking in a second language. Brain and Language, 162, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.07.004

Kumar, K., Sreeshma, R., & Kalaiah, M. K. (2020). A comparison of temporal processing and spectral processing abilities of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual children. International journal of audiology, 59(7), 501-505. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2020.1720921

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Lemonnier, S., Fayolle, B., Sebastian-Galles, N., Brémond, R., Diard, J., & Fort, M. (2024). Monolingual and bilingual infants' attention to talking faces: evidence from eye-tracking and Bayesian modeling. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1373191.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1373191

Leung, K. I., Tremblay, P., & Molnar, M. T. (2024). A systematic review and meta-analysis of language and cognition in the developing bilingual brain: From infancy to adolescence. Europe PMC. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jkq9c

Li, J., Yao, C., Li, Y., Liu, X., Zhao, Z., Shang, Y., ... & Hu, B. (2024). Effects of second language acquisition on brain functional networks at different developmental stages. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-024-00865-y

​​Li, X., Ng, K. K., Wong, J. J. Y., Zhou, J. H., & Yow, W. Q. (2024). Brain gray matter morphometry relates to onset age of bilingualism and theory of mind in young and older adults. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 3193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48710-4

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