Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses>Doctoral Dissertation:  Wright, Hannah (September 2012), Computer programmers and the “bilingual advantage”, http://thecodingbrain.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/evidence-suggesting-that-young-computer-programmers-have-bilingual-brains/, Institute of Education, University of London, Retrieved on 2013-06-28
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    28 JUN 2013

     Bilinguals Perform Better at Non-Verbal Tests

    When communicating, bilinguals must successfully manage two conflicting languages; one must be accessed whilst the other is suppressed, in order to avoid involuntary language switching. The cognitive demands of this task are thought to be the origin of the bilingual advantage in executive control. A series of studies have demonstrated that bilinguals outperform their peers on tests of non-linguistic interference. Bilingual children, middle aged adults and older adults consistently record fa...
    Folksonomies: cognition bilingualism
    Folksonomies: cognition bilingualism
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    Early bilingual children perform better at sensory tasks, while children who became bilingual at adolescence perform better at conflict resolution tasks.

    28 JUN 2013

     The Bilingual Advantage in Computer Programmers

    Like bilinguals, expert computer programmers successfully manage two or more separate lexicons, grammars and divergent concepts, avoiding inadvertent transfer between the two. Numerous studies of novice programmers indicate that they struggle to do achieve this division; transfer from natural language creates bugs (e.g. Soloway and Spohrer, 1989; Witschital, 1995). The present study therefore considers whether the “bilingual advantage” in executive control is found in computer programmers. [...
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    Manifests in tasks involving executive function, but not in other bilingual tasks. More research needed.

    28 JUN 2013

     Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism

    In stark contrast to early suspicions that bilingual children were at risk of retardation or at best, “mentally confused” (Bialystok, 2005), recent research links bilingualism to cognitive reserve and suggests it may offer protection against dementia in old age. Cognitive reserve describes a kind of resilience which appears to mediate the relationship between brain pathology and the clinical expression of that pathology; it is thought that this resilience derives from more efficient use of br...
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    It protects against the onset of dementia in old age and produces numerous sensory and executive cognitive benefits in life.

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