• No Bilingual Benefits Despite Relations Between Language Switching and Task Switching 

      Timmermeister, Mona; Leseman, Paul; Wijnen, Frank; Blom, Wilhelmina Bernardina T. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-24)
      Previous research has shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing cognitive control. Bilinguals’ enhanced cognitive control is thought to be caused by the necessity to exert more language control in bilingual compared to monolingual settings. Surprisingly, between-group research of cognitive effects of bilingualism is hardly ever combined with within-group research that ...
    • Robustness of the rule-learning effect in 7-month-old infants: A close, multicenter replication of Marcus et al. (1999) 

      Geambașu, Andreea; Spit, Sybren; van Renswoude, Daan; Blom, Wilhelmina Bernardina T.; Fikkert, Paula; Hunnius, Sabine; Junge, Caroline C.M.M.; Verhagen, Josje; Visser, Ingmar; Wijnen, Frank; Levelt, Clara C. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-16)
      We conducted a close replication of the seminal work by Marcus and colleagues from 1999, which showed that after a brief auditory exposure phase, 7-month-old infants were able to learn and generalize a rule to novel syllables not previously present in the exposure phase. This work became the foundation for the theoretical framework by which we assume that infants are able to learn abstract representations ...
    • What risk factors for Developmental Language Disorder can tell us about the neurobiological mechanisms of language development 

      Boerma, Tessel; ter Haar, Sita; Ganga, Rachida; Wijnen, Frank; Blom, Wilhelmina Bernardina T.; Wierenga, Corette (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-21)
      Language is a complex multidimensional cognitive system that is connected to many neurocognitive capacities. The development of language is therefore strongly intertwined with the development of these capacities and their neurobiological substrates. Consequently, language problems, for example those of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), are explained by a variety of etiological ...