Fergus I.M. Craik
List of John Benjamins publications in which Fergus I.M. Craik is involved.
Articles
2023 Chapter 15. The effects of bilingualism on cognitive functioning in older adults Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok, Luk, Gigi, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy (eds.), pp. 318–342 | Chapter
This chapter examines the links between bilingualism and executive control in older adults, with a particular focus on comparing those with lifelong bilingual experience to those who do not. While aging is a maturational process in which people become suboptimal in executive control, there is… read more
2017 Chapter 2. Cognitive problems in older adults: Can bilingualism help? Growing Old with Two Languages: Effects of Bilingualism on Cognitive Aging, Bialystok, Ellen and Margot D. Sullivan (eds.), pp. 9–20 | Chapter
This chapter reviews the negative effects of aging on many cognitive functions and contrasts these results with the positive effects found for bilingualism on some of these functions, notably on processes of cognitive control. Such findings prompt the question of whether bilingualism may offset the… read more
1999 Levels of encoding and retrieval Stratification in Cognition and Consciousness, Challis, Bradford H. and Boris M. Velichkovsky (eds.), pp. 97–104 | Miscellaneous