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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 3

March 2019 - 12 articles

Cover Story: Recently, doubts were raised about the existence of the bilingual advantage in cognitive control. The aim of the present review was to investigate the bilingual advantage and its modulating factors. We searched the Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ERIC databases for all original data and reviewed studies on bilingualism and cognitive control. The results of the 46 original studies show that indeed, the majority (54.3%) reported beneficial effects of bilingualism on cognitive control tasks. However, 28.3% found mixed results and 17.4% found evidence against its existence. Methodological differences seem to explain these mixed results. Therefore, a serious risk for bias exists in both directions. To conclude, we found some evidence for a bilingual advantage in cognitive control, but better study designs, bigger data, and more longitudinal studies are needed. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Review
  • Open Access
192 Citations
15,612 Views
13 Pages

24 March 2019

No two bilinguals are the same. Differences in bilingual experiences can affect language-related processes but have also been proposed to modulate executive functioning. Recently, there has been an increased interest in studying individual difference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,878 Views
9 Pages

21 March 2019

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among active transport, electronic device-use, and self-reported school week moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in a sample of adolescents. The sample consisted of 1445 adolescents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
15,943 Views
13 Pages

20 March 2019

The sociology of religion focuses on an individual’s social and married life. This research performed the first focalized examination of the influence of spirituality and religiosity on the marital satisfaction of Pakistani Muslim couples and h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,157 Views
12 Pages

20 March 2019

The current study aims to explain how motivational orientations influence organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) through organizational identification considering the moderator effect of perceived discrimination. A sample of 286 Spanish immigrants...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,471 Views
10 Pages

19 March 2019

The objective of the present study is to analyze non-professional soccer players’ preferences regarding coach leadership style and motivational climate and to determine the relationship of these variables with players’ satisfaction, sport...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
14,203 Views
14 Pages

Reaction Time Improvements by Neural Bistability

  • Henk Koppelaar,
  • Parastou Kordestani Moghadam,
  • Kamruzzaman Khan,
  • Sareh Kouhkani,
  • Gijs Segers and
  • Martin van Warmerdam

18 March 2019

The often reported reduction of Reaction Time (RT) by Vision Training) is successfully replicated by 81 athletes across sports. This enabled us to achieve a mean reduction of RTs for athletes eye-hand coordination of more than 10%, with high statisti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
160 Citations
28,146 Views
30 Pages

Does the Bilingual Advantage in Cognitive Control Exist and If So, What Are Its Modulating Factors? A Systematic Review

  • Maurits van den Noort,
  • Esli Struys,
  • Peggy Bosch,
  • Lars Jaswetz,
  • Benoît Perriard,
  • Sujung Yeo,
  • Pia Barisch,
  • Katrien Vermeire,
  • Sook-Hyun Lee and
  • Sabina Lim

13 March 2019

Recently, doubts were raised about the existence of the bilingual advantage in cognitive control. The aim of the present review was to investigate the bilingual advantage and its modulating factors. We searched the Medline, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,796 Views
11 Pages

11 March 2019

Life course epidemiological studies have documented the effects of family socioeconomic position (SEP) at birth on youth developmental processes and outcomes decades later. According to the minorities’ diminished returns (MDR) theory, however,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,233 Views
14 Pages

8 March 2019

The present study investigated the influence of Dutch-German cognates resp. orthographic neighbors on controlled language processing (i.e., response inhibition). Two monolingual Stroop tasks (Dutch and German) were performed by Dutch-speaking partici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,320 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Memantine in a Mouse Model of Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction

  • Ahmad Almahozi,
  • Mohamed Radhi,
  • Suja Alzayer and
  • Amer Kamal

6 March 2019

Persistent impairment in cognitive functioning postoperatively is reported by clinical and animal studies, and is labeled as postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Evidence points to an exaggerated neuroinflammatory response resulting from perip...

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