Trajectories of verbal fluency and executive functions in multilingual and monolingual children and adults: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: The development of verbal fluency is associated with the maturation of executive function skills, such as the ability to inhibit irrelevant information, shift between tasks, and hold information in working memory. Some evidence suggests that multilinguistic upbringing may underpin disadvantages in verbal fluency and lexical retrieval, but can also afford executive function advantages beyond the language system including possible beneficial effects in older age. This study examined the relationship between verbal fluency and executive function in 324 individuals across the lifespan by assessing the developmental trajectories of English monolingual and multilingual children aged 7-15 years (N = 154) and adults from 18 to 80 years old (N = 170). The childhood data indicated patt

SUBMITTER: Filippi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8600596 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature