Bilingualism and cognition: The role of language use and proficiency in healthy older adults
This suggests that high L2 proficiency and L1-L2 active use is associated with better cognitive performance, irrespective of AoA. Furthermore, the cognitive benefits of actively speaking a second language seems to be limited to non-linguistic functions, with no significant effect on verbal episodic memory or lexical retrieval.
Authors
- Sergio Grueso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3888-912X)
- Marco Calabria (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4373-1316)
- Ferrán Prados (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7872-0142)
- Laia Subirats
- Miguel A Santos‐Santos
- Gonzalo Sánchez‐Benavides
- Oriol Grau‐Rivera
Institutions
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (ES)
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- Hospital de Sant Pau (ES)
- Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (ES)
- The London College (GB)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Alzheimer s & Dementia
- Published
- 2025-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/alz70857_103020
- Primary Topic
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00