Thomas H. Bak

List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas H. Bak plays a role.

Articles

Bak, Thomas H. 2019 Chapter 6. Cooking pasta in La Paz: Bilingualism, bias, and the replication crisisBilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights, Sekerina, Irina A., Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian (eds.), pp. 81–99 | Chapter
Literature on bilingualism and cognition is characterized by a large amount of conflicting evidence. In some studies, bilinguals perform better then monolinguals on executive tasks involving inhibition, monitoring, and switching but are slower on tasks of lexical processing. Other studies don’t… read more
Within the current debates on cognitive reserve, cognitive ageing and dementia increasingly showing a positive effect of mental, social and physical activities on health in older age, bilingualism remains one of the most controversial issues. Some reasons for it might be social or even ideological.… read more
Bak, Thomas H. 2016 Cooking pasta in La Paz: Bilingualism, bias and the replication crisisBilingualism and Executive Function: An interdisciplinary approach, Sekerina, Irina A. and Lauren Spradlin (eds.), pp. 699–717 | Article
Literature on bilingualism and cognition is characterised by a large amount of conflicting evidence. In some studies, bilinguals perform better then monolinguals on executive tasks involving inhibition, monitoring and switching but are slower on tasks of lexical processing. Other studies don’t… read more
Bak, Thomas H. 2016 The impact of bilingualism on cognitive ageing and dementia: Finding a path through a forest of confounding variablesAging and Bilingualism, Bialystok, Ellen and Margot D. Sullivan (eds.), pp. 205–226 | Article
Within the current debates on cognitive reserve, cognitive ageing and dementia increasingly showing a positive effect of mental, social and physical activities on health in older age, bilingualism remains one of the most controversial issues. Some reasons for it might be social or even… read more