Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism (Bilingual Processing and Acquisition)

The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system―a mental exercise which may lead to cognitive benefits. Through an in-depth exploration of these issues, Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism presents original studies and new perspectives which are cutting-edge and feature traditional and innovative methodologies such as ERPs, fMRIs, eye-tracking, picture- and numeral naming, the Simon, flanker, and oculomotor Stroop tasks, among others. The studies in this book investigate prominent themes in multilingual language control for both comprehension and production and probe the notion of a cognitive advantage that may be a result of multilingualism. The growing number of researchers, practitioners, and students alike will find this volume to be an instrumental source of readings that illuminates how one mind accommodates and controls multiple languages and the consequences it has on human cognition in general.

The editor of "Cognitive control and consequences of multilingualism" is John W. Schwieter, an associate professor of Spanish and linguistics and Faculty of Arts teaching scholar at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and a visiting professor of applied linguistics in the Centre for Applied Research and Outreach in Language Education at the University of Greenwich in England. His research interests span cognitive and sociocultural perspectives of bilingualism/multilingualism, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, and translation processes.
 
The book features contributions from: John W. Schwieter, Andrea Hadland, Debra Titone, Veronica Whitford, Agnieszka Lijewska, Inbal Itzhak, Susan C. Bobb, Laila Y. Drummond Nauck, Nicole Altvater-Mackensen, Katie Von Holzen, Nivedita Mani, Pilar Archila-Suerte, Brandin A. Munson, Arturo E. Hernandez, Mikel Santesteban, Albert Costa, Andrea M. Philipp, Iring Koch, Julia Festman, Michela Mosca, Ingrid Christoffels, Lesya Ganushchak, Wido La Heij, Aline Ferreira, Taomei Guo, Chunyan Kang, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Thomas F. Münte, Julia Morales, Carlos J. Gómez-Ariza, M. Teresa Bajo, Julia Ouzia, Roberto Filippi, Anat Prior, Noa Goldwasser, Rotem Ravet-Hirsh, Mila Schwartz, Sibylla Leon Guerrero, Sara Smith, Gigi Luk, John G. Grundy, Kalinka Timmer, Manjunath Narra, Andrew Heathcote, Matthew Finkbeiner, Ramesh Kumar Mishra, and Niharika Singh.