Bilingualism boosts cognitive skills in autistic children, enhancing executive function and perspective-taking.

The research was published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that results in cognitive decline. It is the most common cause ...

New psychology research indicates that multilingual children may have enhanced executive function and perspective taking skills.

New psychology research suggests that children who speak multiple languages may have improved cognitive skills. New research ...

As Alzheimer's disease progresses, hippocampus, the area related to memory shrinks, but knowing two or more languages helps slow that, as per this study. Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative ...

Marian is the principal investigator of the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Group. She is interested in language and cognition and studies bilingualism, language processing ...

My research interests center on early cognitive and language development. A first area of research concerns the cognitive benefits of bilingualism during the first years of life (NSERC Discovery Grant ...

Bilingualism could prove to be an asset for autistic children For a long time, it was thought that bilingualism could be confusing for toddlers. It occurs when several brain regions activate at the ...

Research areas: Applied Linguistics, Assessment, Bilingualism, Cognitive Learning Strategies, Cognitive Psychology, Language Acquisition, Learning Strategies, Memory ...

Encouraging bilingualism at home can have many cognitive benefits, which may be particularly helpful to kids with autism ...