{"id":{"repo_id":"uiuc","oai_identifier":"oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/97654"},"canonical_url":"https://search.dev.ndltd.org/etd/uiuc/oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/97654","repository":{"repo_id":"uiuc","name":"University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign","base_url":"https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh"},"display":{"title":"Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan","abstract":"Research has demonstrated that bilingual children who constantly juggle two languages have better controlled processing and enhanced executive function (Bialystok, 2001; Bialystok & Martin, 2004). These findings have also been extended to adults whereby bilingual adults across the lifespan were found to have smaller interference effects than monolingual adults on a number of measures thought to involve cognitive and/or word-level linguistic control, for instance the Simon, Flanker, and Stroop tasks (see e.g., Bialystok et al., 2004). The claims of this hypothesis are controversial, however, with several recent studies finding no evidence of the advantage (Hilchey & Klein, 2011; Kousaie & Phillips,2012, Kousaie et al., 2012, Paap & Greenberg, 2013, Paap et al., 2014) and of the calls for more research (Abutalebi & Clahsen, 2015; Bialystok & Kroll, 2013; Titone & Baum, 2014; Valian, 2015), especially with older adults, the present study examines how bilingual language experiences can impact cognitive-linguistic processing across the lifespan. This study further investigates the Bilingual Cognitive Advantage (BCA) hypothesis, which holds that bilinguals can show evidence of having certain cognitive advantages relative to monolinguals (Bialystok et al., 2004, 2006, 2008 a,b; Costa et al., 2008; Hernandez et al., 2010; Salvatierra & Rosselli, 2011; Bialystok et al., 2014; Blumenfeld & Marian, 2014). Participants included French-English and English-French bilinguals and both English and French monolinguals between 18-80 years of age (n=131). Tasks which served as proxy measures of executive function included English- and French-language versions of the Simon, Stroop, Corsi block task, Verbal fluency test, and Aospan. Results from these tasks considered together with language-related experiential variables are interpreted as supporting the BCA hypothesis. Findings are discussed with respect to possible future avenues of research.","abstract_html":"Research has demonstrated that bilingual children who constantly juggle two languages have better controlled processing and enhanced executive function (Bialystok, 2001; Bialystok & Martin, 2004). These findings have also been extended to adults whereby bilingual adults across the lifespan were found to have smaller interference effects than monolingual adults on a number of measures thought to involve cognitive and/or word-level linguistic control, for instance the Simon, Flanker, and Stroop tasks (see e.g., Bialystok et al., 2004). The claims of this hypothesis are controversial, however, with several recent studies finding no evidence of the advantage (Hilchey & Klein, 2011; Kousaie & Phillips,2012, Kousaie et al., 2012, Paap & Greenberg, 2013, Paap et al., 2014) and of the calls for more research (Abutalebi & Clahsen, 2015; Bialystok & Kroll, 2013; Titone & Baum, 2014; Valian, 2015), especially with older adults, the present study examines how bilingual language experiences can impact cognitive-linguistic processing across the lifespan. This study further investigates the Bilingual Cognitive Advantage (BCA) hypothesis, which holds that bilinguals can show evidence of having certain cognitive advantages relative to monolinguals (Bialystok et al., 2004, 2006, 2008 a,b; Costa et al., 2008; Hernandez et al., 2010; Salvatierra & Rosselli, 2011; Bialystok et al., 2014; Blumenfeld & Marian, 2014). Participants included French-English and English-French bilinguals and both English and French monolinguals between 18-80 years of age (n=131). Tasks which served as proxy measures of executive function included English- and French-language versions of the Simon, Stroop, Corsi block task, Verbal fluency test, and Aospan. Results from these tasks considered together with language-related experiential variables are interpreted as supporting the BCA hypothesis. Findings are discussed with respect to possible future avenues of research.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Boudros, Henrietta N"],"institution":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","degree_name":"Ph.D.","degree_level":"Dissertation","degree_discipline":"French","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Golato, Peter","Fresco, Karen","Christianson, Kiel","Kibbee, Douglas"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2017,"date_issued":"2017-08-10T20:32:28Z","date_published":"2017-08-10T20:32:28Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:24:34Z","subjects":["Bilingualism","Cognitive and linguistic processing","Cognitive control","Aging"],"languages":["en"],"rights":["Copyright 2017 Henrietta Boudros"],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97654","outbound_label":"Handle","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["Golato, Peter","Fresco, Karen","Christianson, Kiel","Kibbee, Douglas"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Boudros, Henrietta N"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date","label":"Dc Date","values":["2017-08-10T20:32:28Z","2019-08-11T09:15:21Z","2017-02-09","2017-05"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["text"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["French"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_level","label":"Degree Level","values":["Dissertation"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["Ph.D."]},{"key":"thesis:institution_name","label":"Thesis Institution Name","values":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["Bilingualism","Cognitive and linguistic processing","Cognitive control","Aging"]}]},{"id":"language_rights","label":"Language and Rights","entries":[{"key":"dc:language","label":"Dc Language","values":["en"]},{"key":"dc:rights","label":"Dc Rights","values":["Copyright 2017 Henrietta Boudros"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97654"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description","label":"Description","values":["Research has demonstrated that bilingual children who constantly juggle two languages have better controlled processing and enhanced executive function (Bialystok, 2001; Bialystok & Martin, 2004). These findings have also been extended to adults whereby bilingual adults across the lifespan were found to have smaller interference effects than monolingual adults on a number of measures thought to involve cognitive and/or word-level linguistic control, for instance the Simon, Flanker, and Stroop tasks (see e.g., Bialystok et al., 2004). The claims of this hypothesis are controversial, however, with several recent studies finding no evidence of the advantage (Hilchey & Klein, 2011; Kousaie & Phillips,2012, Kousaie et al., 2012, Paap & Greenberg, 2013, Paap et al., 2014) and of the calls for more research (Abutalebi & Clahsen, 2015; Bialystok & Kroll, 2013; Titone & Baum, 2014; Valian, 2015), especially with older adults, the present study examines how bilingual language experiences can impact cognitive-linguistic processing across the lifespan. This study further investigates the Bilingual Cognitive Advantage (BCA) hypothesis, which holds that bilinguals can show evidence of having certain cognitive advantages relative to monolinguals (Bialystok et al., 2004, 2006, 2008 a,b; Costa et al., 2008; Hernandez et al., 2010; Salvatierra & Rosselli, 2011; Bialystok et al., 2014; Blumenfeld & Marian, 2014). Participants included French-English and English-French bilinguals and both English and French monolinguals between 18-80 years of age (n=131). Tasks which served as proxy measures of executive function included English- and French-language versions of the Simon, Stroop, Corsi block task, Verbal fluency test, and Aospan. Results from these tasks considered together with language-related experiential variables are interpreted as supporting the BCA hypothesis. Findings are discussed with respect to possible future avenues of research.","Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01","The student, Henrietta Boudros, accepted the attached license on 2017-02-08 at 13:28.","The student, Henrietta Boudros, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-02-08 at 13:33.","This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-02-09 at 08:38.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10556 on 2017-08-10 at 15:04:24","Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T20:32:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BOUDROS-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf: 2313192 bytes, checksum: af5848ba3fcc99cd24db61b59f9d3c1e (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4214 bytes, checksum: 20d91eee37ffcf9ae03ce00d295990d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-09","Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102707 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system","U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 102707 on 2019-08-11T09:15:21Z."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Golato, Peter","Fresco, Karen","Christianson, Kiel","Kibbee, Douglas"],"dc:creator":["Boudros, Henrietta N"],"dc:date":["2017-08-10T20:32:28Z","2019-08-11T09:15:21Z","2017-02-09","2017-05"],"dc:description":["Research has demonstrated that bilingual children who constantly juggle two languages have better controlled processing and enhanced executive function (Bialystok, 2001; Bialystok & Martin, 2004). These findings have also been extended to adults whereby bilingual adults across the lifespan were found to have smaller interference effects than monolingual adults on a number of measures thought to involve cognitive and/or word-level linguistic control, for instance the Simon, Flanker, and Stroop tasks (see e.g., Bialystok et al., 2004). The claims of this hypothesis are controversial, however, with several recent studies finding no evidence of the advantage (Hilchey & Klein, 2011; Kousaie & Phillips,2012, Kousaie et al., 2012, Paap & Greenberg, 2013, Paap et al., 2014) and of the calls for more research (Abutalebi & Clahsen, 2015; Bialystok & Kroll, 2013; Titone & Baum, 2014; Valian, 2015), especially with older adults, the present study examines how bilingual language experiences can impact cognitive-linguistic processing across the lifespan. This study further investigates the Bilingual Cognitive Advantage (BCA) hypothesis, which holds that bilinguals can show evidence of having certain cognitive advantages relative to monolinguals (Bialystok et al., 2004, 2006, 2008 a,b; Costa et al., 2008; Hernandez et al., 2010; Salvatierra & Rosselli, 2011; Bialystok et al., 2014; Blumenfeld & Marian, 2014). Participants included French-English and English-French bilinguals and both English and French monolinguals between 18-80 years of age (n=131). Tasks which served as proxy measures of executive function included English- and French-language versions of the Simon, Stroop, Corsi block task, Verbal fluency test, and Aospan. Results from these tasks considered together with language-related experiential variables are interpreted as supporting the BCA hypothesis. Findings are discussed with respect to possible future avenues of research.","Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01","The student, Henrietta Boudros, accepted the attached license on 2017-02-08 at 13:28.","The student, Henrietta Boudros, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-02-08 at 13:33.","This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-02-09 at 08:38.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10556 on 2017-08-10 at 15:04:24","Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T20:32:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 BOUDROS-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf: 2313192 bytes, checksum: af5848ba3fcc99cd24db61b59f9d3c1e (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4214 bytes, checksum: 20d91eee37ffcf9ae03ce00d295990d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-09","Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102707 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system","U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 102707 on 2019-08-11T09:15:21Z."],"dc:format":["application/pdf"],"dc:identifier":["http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97654"],"dc:language":["en"],"dc:rights":["Copyright 2017 Henrietta Boudros"],"dc:subject":["Bilingualism","Cognitive and linguistic processing","Cognitive control","Aging"],"dc:title":["Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan"],"dc:type":["text"],"thesis:degree_discipline":["French"],"thesis:degree_level":["Dissertation"],"thesis:degree_name":["Ph.D."],"thesis:institution_name":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]},"updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:24:34Z"}