Jubin Abutalebi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3072022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jubin Abutalebi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jubin |
| FAMILY NAME | Abutalebi |
| SIGNATURE | ABUTALEBI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vita-Salute San Raffaele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3016-9184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What bilingualism demands: The case for genuine integration across linguistics, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology
Bilingualism research sits at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology, yet these disciplines often operate in relative isolation, limiting explanatory power and theoretical progress. This paper argues that deeper, more purposeful cross-fertilization among these fields is both possible and necessary to address some of the most pressing questions in the study of bilingualism. After establishing a shared foundation th…
Boundaries of the foreign language effect under conditions of uncertainty
People’s decisions may change when made in a foreign language (FL). Research testing this foreign language effect (FLE) has mostly used scenarios where uncertainty is expunged or reduced to a form of risk, whereas real-life decisions are usually characterized by uncertainty around outcome likelihood. In the current work, we aimed to investigate whether the FLE on decision-making extends to uncertain scenarios. Moreover, as it is still unclear wha…
The interplay between bilingualism and sleep quality in modulating executive performance
We investigated the interactive effects of bilingualism and sleep on executive functioning at the behavioral level. We conducted two experiments using two independent samples of bilingual young adults, the Flanker task to assess executive performance, the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index to measure retrospective sleep quality over a one-month period and the Insomnia Severity Index to assess insomnia-related symptoms. In Experiment 1, we registered b…
Embodied Lexical Semantics in a Second Language: A Neurocognitive Review
Sensorimotor embodiment of emotional semantic representations in the second language (L2) has been largely studied through behavioral paradigms. However, most neuroscience research of embodied semantics has almost exclusively focused on the native language (L1). The representational architecture of emotive concepts (e.g., love, hate) in L2 has been explored from the neurocognitive perspective to a lesser degree. In this review, we first scrutiniz…
Supplementary materials
Linguistic distance affects executive performance in trilinguals
Recent research has highlighted potential benefits associated with bilingualism for overall cognitive efficiency and health. One understudied dimension of the bilingual experience is linguistic distance (LD), a measure defining how (dis)similar two given languages are. The previous study has explored the role of LD as a modulator of bilingualism-induced neurocognitive consequences in aging individuals. However, this has scarcely been investigated…
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions
Bilingualism and sleep affect similar cognitive abilities. • Bilingualism and sleep affect similar neural structures. • Bilingualism and sleep both contribute to reserve during aging. • We highlight the need to explore how they interact at neural and cognitive levels. Sleep and language are fundamental to human existence and have both been shown to substantially affect cognitive functioning including memory, attentional performance, and cognitive…
The unique role of bilingualism among cognitive reserve-enhancing factors
The umbrella term cognitive reserve-enhancing factors refers to those experiential and lifestyle factors (such as intellectual activities, regular physical exercise, healthy nutrition, educational attainment, etc.) that may help individuals to compensate for age-related neural deterioration, thus enabling them to maintain relatively stable cognitive functioning during senescence. In the last 10 years, mounting evidence has shown that speaking a s…
Linguistic distance dynamically modulates the effects of bilingualism on executive performance in aging
To better explain various neurocognitive consequences of bilingualism, recent investigations have adopted continuous measures of bilingual experience, as opposed to binary bi/monolingual distinctions. However, few studies have considered whether bilingualism's effects on cognition are modulated by the linguistic distance (LD) between L1 and L2, and none of the existing studies has examined cognitive consequences of LD in aging populations. Here, …
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions
Multilingual and social experience: The Systems Framework of Bilingualism
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Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect on bilinguals’ language experience
The moral foreign language effect (MFLE) describes how people’s decisions may change when a moral dilemma is presented in either their native (NL) or foreign language (FL). Growing attention is being directed to unpacking what aspects of bilingualism may influence the MFLE, though with mixed or inconclusive results. The current study aims to bridge this gap by adopting a conceptualization of bilingualism that frames this construct as a composite …
The processing of bilingual (switched) compound verbs: Competition of words from different categories for lexical selection
This paper investigates the production of Persian–English bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) of the type [VERB+VERB]. In this type of code-switched structure, a lexical verb from the donor language English is combined with a light verb from the native language Persian. We tested the hypothesis that in Persian–English BCVs English verbs occupy the nominal slots of monolingual Persian complex predicates of the type [NOMINAL+VERB]. Two methodologies we…
Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect
In the present meta-analysis, we investigated the robustness and the magnitude of the Foreign Language Effect (FLE) – that is, the putative effect of language context (native versus foreign language) on decision-making. We also investigated whether the FLE is moderated by language experience – measured by second language age of acquisition and proficiency – or by methodological choices – the types of decision problems adopted, the presentation mo…
Digital tools for learning new languages: Benefits and limitations
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Words in the non-native mind: Developing lexical representations in the L2
A large body of bilingualism research has dealt with the lexicon. Topics such as vocabulary acquisition and the representation of words in the bilingual lexicon have been highly popular in bilingualism journals. There are also prominent models of the bilingual mental lexicon (e.g. However, what has been missing in previous research is a framework for understanding the properties of lexical units in a non-native second language (L2) and how these …
The relationship between reading abilities and the left occipitotemporal sulcus: A dual perspective study
The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks
Bilingualism and aging: Why research should continue
Whether bilingualism acts positively against neurocognitive decline is intensely debated. Although some reasons for it might be ideological, variability in sampling procedures and experimental design represent potential sources of inconsistency among studies. In this paper, we contend that bilingualism renders the extra-years of life of an increasingly long-lived population cognitively healthy, but only under specific conditions such as continuou…
Bilingualism as a gradient measure modulates functional connectivity of language and control networks
There is currently no agreement on which factor modulates most effectively and enduringly brain plasticity in bilingual individuals. Grouping heterogeneous linguistic profiles under a dichotomous condition (bilingualism versus monolingualism) may obscure critical aspects of language experience underlying neural changes, thus leading to variable and often conflicting findings. In the present study, we overcome these limitations by analyzing the in…
Thinking outside the box: The brain-bilingualism relationship in the light of early neurobiological variability
Second language use rather than second language knowledge relates to changes in white matter microstructure
Cognitive and brain reserve in bilinguals: Field Overview and Explanatory Mechanisms
Introduction to the special issue on cognitive consequences of bilingualism
Neuroimaging of language control in bilinguals: Neural adaptation and reserve
Speaking more than one language demands a language control system that allows bilinguals to correctly use the intended language adjusting for possible interference from the non-target language. Understanding how the brain orchestrates the control of language has been a major focus of neuroimaging research on bilingualism and was central to our original neurocognitive language control model (Abutalebi & Green, 2007). We updated the network of lang…
Bilingual language production: The neurocognition of language representation and control
Cognitive NeurologyA clinical textbook
The study of patients affected by disorders of the central nervous system is one of the crucial research methods for investigating the organization of cognitive functions in the brain. However, many clinicians remain unaware of the significant advances that have taken place in the field of cognitive neuroscience in the last decades. This book provides an introduction to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of the clinical practice of neurology. …
Control mechanisms in bilingual language production: Neural evidence from language switching studies
A key question in bilingual language production research is how bilingual individuals control the use of their two languages. The psycholinguistic literature concerning language control is unresolved. It is a matter of controversy whether (a) issues to do with control are central to understanding bilingual language processing; and (b) if they are, what is the site or sites of control; and (c) whether language control in bilinguals relies upon inh…
Neural aspects of second language representation and language control
Second Language Representation in the Brain
Second language (L2) representation in the brain refers to the neurolinguistic and neuroscientific study of the cerebral organization of multiple languages in the human brain.
Bilingualism Tunes the Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Conflict Monitoring
Monitoring and controlling 2 language systems is fundamental to language use in bilinguals. Here, we reveal in a combined functional (event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging) and structural neuroimaging (voxel-based morphometry) study that dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a structure tightly bound to domain-general executive control functions, is a common locus for language control and resolving nonverbal conflict. We also show…
Language control in bilinguals: The adaptive control hypothesis
Speech comprehension and production are governed by control processes. We explore their nature and dynamics in bilingual speakers with a focus on speech production. Prior research indicates that individuals increase cognitive control in order to achieve a desired goal. In the adaptive control hypothesis we propose a stronger hypothesis: Language control processes themselves adapt to the recurrent demands placed on them by the interactional contex…
Neuroimaging of language control in bilinguals: Neural adaptation and reserve
Speaking more than one language demands a language control system that allows bilinguals to correctly use the intended language adjusting for possible interference from the non-target language. Understanding how the brain orchestrates the control of language has been a major focus of neuroimaging research on bilingualism and was central to our original neurocognitive language control model (Abutalebi & Green, 2007). We updated the network of lang…
Bilingualism as a gradient measure modulates functional connectivity of language and control networks
There is currently no agreement on which factor modulates most effectively and enduringly brain plasticity in bilingual individuals. Grouping heterogeneous linguistic profiles under a dichotomous condition (bilingualism versus monolingualism) may obscure critical aspects of language experience underlying neural changes, thus leading to variable and often conflicting findings. In the present study, we overcome these limitations by analyzing the in…
Thinking outside the box: The brain-bilingualism relationship in the light of early neurobiological variability
Second language use rather than second language knowledge relates to changes in white matter microstructure
Cognitive and brain reserve in bilinguals: Field Overview and Explanatory Mechanisms
Introduction to the special issue on cognitive consequences of bilingualism
The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks
Bilingualism and aging: Why research should continue
Whether bilingualism acts positively against neurocognitive decline is intensely debated. Although some reasons for it might be ideological, variability in sampling procedures and experimental design represent potential sources of inconsistency among studies. In this paper, we contend that bilingualism renders the extra-years of life of an increasingly long-lived population cognitively healthy, but only under specific conditions such as continuou…
Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect on bilinguals’ language experience
The moral foreign language effect (MFLE) describes how people’s decisions may change when a moral dilemma is presented in either their native (NL) or foreign language (FL). Growing attention is being directed to unpacking what aspects of bilingualism may influence the MFLE, though with mixed or inconclusive results. The current study aims to bridge this gap by adopting a conceptualization of bilingualism that frames this construct as a composite …
The processing of bilingual (switched) compound verbs: Competition of words from different categories for lexical selection
This paper investigates the production of Persian–English bilingual compound verbs (BCVs) of the type [VERB+VERB]. In this type of code-switched structure, a lexical verb from the donor language English is combined with a light verb from the native language Persian. We tested the hypothesis that in Persian–English BCVs English verbs occupy the nominal slots of monolingual Persian complex predicates of the type [NOMINAL+VERB]. Two methodologies we…
Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect
In the present meta-analysis, we investigated the robustness and the magnitude of the Foreign Language Effect (FLE) – that is, the putative effect of language context (native versus foreign language) on decision-making. We also investigated whether the FLE is moderated by language experience – measured by second language age of acquisition and proficiency – or by methodological choices – the types of decision problems adopted, the presentation mo…
Digital tools for learning new languages: Benefits and limitations
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Words in the non-native mind: Developing lexical representations in the L2
A large body of bilingualism research has dealt with the lexicon. Topics such as vocabulary acquisition and the representation of words in the bilingual lexicon have been highly popular in bilingualism journals. There are also prominent models of the bilingual mental lexicon (e.g. However, what has been missing in previous research is a framework for understanding the properties of lexical units in a non-native second language (L2) and how these …
The relationship between reading abilities and the left occipitotemporal sulcus: A dual perspective study
Multilingual and social experience: The Systems Framework of Bilingualism
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The unique role of bilingualism among cognitive reserve-enhancing factors
The umbrella term cognitive reserve-enhancing factors refers to those experiential and lifestyle factors (such as intellectual activities, regular physical exercise, healthy nutrition, educational attainment, etc.) that may help individuals to compensate for age-related neural deterioration, thus enabling them to maintain relatively stable cognitive functioning during senescence. In the last 10 years, mounting evidence has shown that speaking a s…
Linguistic distance dynamically modulates the effects of bilingualism on executive performance in aging
To better explain various neurocognitive consequences of bilingualism, recent investigations have adopted continuous measures of bilingual experience, as opposed to binary bi/monolingual distinctions. However, few studies have considered whether bilingualism's effects on cognition are modulated by the linguistic distance (LD) between L1 and L2, and none of the existing studies has examined cognitive consequences of LD in aging populations. Here, …
Original language versus dubbed movies: Effects on our brain and emotions
Psychology (29 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (22 works) · Neuroscience (21 works) · Cognition (20 works) · Cognitive psychology (20 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Cognitive science (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works)