Is More Better? The Effects of Multilingualism on Working Memory.

Abstract

In the field of psycholinguistics cognitive benefits of bilingualism is a subject undergoing intense research. It was found that bilinguals outperform their monolingual peers on different tasks that involve various cognitive abilities, such as executive control, memory, metalinguistic awareness, etc. The following research run in parallel with a recent investigation in which an advantage was found for bilingual over monolingual adults in working memory (WM) performance. However, we took a step further and looked at bilingual and multilingual adults with different degrees of the third language (L3) knowledge.