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Research
Latest papers
Cognitive reserve is associated with less cognitive decline from white matter hyperintensities.
Neurobiology of aging · 2026
Biological sex and bilingualism: Its impact on risk and resilience for dementia.
Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026
Natural Speech Analysis Can Reveal Individual Differences in Executive Function Across the Adult Lifespan.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025
Latest funding
- $390,000
Bilingualism as a Source of Experience-Dependent Plasticity: Mechanisms and Limits
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $244,616
Impact of early French immersion on language and cognitive development in a diverse population
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $285,000
Interaction of language and control processes in monolingual and bilingual cognition
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
97 publications.
Cognitive reserve is associated with less cognitive decline from white matter hyperintensities.
Hamilton AP, Sotebeer KN, Grundy JG, Chadwick K, Morrison C, Dadar M, Bialystok E, Anderson JAE, Alzheimer’s Disease Metabolomics Consortium
Biological sex and bilingualism: Its impact on risk and resilience for dementia.
Calvo N, Phillips N, Bialystok E, Einstein G
Natural Speech Analysis Can Reveal Individual Differences in Executive Function Across the Adult Lifespan.
Wei HT, Kulzhabayeva D, Erceg L, Rose MK, Spencer KA, Robin J, Bialystok E, Meltzer JA
Beyond executive functioning: rethinking the impact of bilingualism.
Bialystok E
Selective attention in cognitive processing revisited: A Long-term Re-evaluation.
Bialystok E
Bilingualism modifies cognition through adaptation, not transfer.
Bialystok E
A neural mechanism of cognitive reserve: The case of bilingualism.
Stevens WD, Khan N, Anderson JAE, Grady CL, Bialystok E
Improvement in executive function for older adults through smartphone apps: a randomized clinical trial comparing language learning and brain training.
Meltzer JA, Kates Rose M, Le AY, Spencer KA, Goldstein L, Gubanova A, Lai AC, Yossofzai M, Armstrong SEM, Bialystok E
Bilingualism modulates neural efficiency at rest through alpha reactivity.
Calvo N, Grundy JG, Bialystok E
Gray Matter Volume as Evidence for Cognitive Reserve in Bilinguals With Mild Cognitive Impairment.
Calvo N, Anderson JAE, Berkes M, Freedman M, Craik FIM, Bialystok E
Bilingualism as a Source of Experience-Dependent Plasticity: Mechanisms and Limits
Principal investigators: Bialystok, Ellen
Keywords: bilingualism; attention; executive function; cognitive development; cognitive aging; eeg; neuroplasticity
Impact of early French immersion on language and cognitive development in a diverse population
Principal investigators: Bialystok, Ellen
Keywords: executive function; literacy; language acquisition; French immersion; bilingualism; multilingualism
Interaction of language and control processes in monolingual and bilingual cognition
Principal investigators: Bialystok, Ellen
Effect of experience on representation and control across the lifespan
Principal investigators: Bialystok, Ellen
Enhancing cognitive flexibility and academic achievement through musical training
Principal investigators: Cepeda, Nicholas J.
Keywords: cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; educational psychology; musical training; cognitive flexibility; executive function; cognitive control; task switching; working memory; attention; inhibition
Effects of normal aging on brain networks over the time course of working memory processing: a simultaneous EEG/fMRI study.
Principal investigators: Bialystok, Ellen
Keywords: Aging; Brain Networks; Neuroimaging; Simultaneous Eeg/Fmri; Working Memory
The development of cognition and literacy in monolingual and bilingual children
Principal investigators: Bialystok, Ellen
Language acquisition
Principal investigators: Crago, Martha B.
Cognitive factors in the development of language proficiency and other symbolic skills
Principal investigators: Bialystok, Ellen
Cognitive factors in the development of language proficiency and other symbolic skills
Principal investigators: Bialystok, Ellen
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Gillian Einstein and Cheryl Grady: 6 shared papers
- Howard Chertkow and Natalie Phillips: 4 shared papers
- Cheryl Grady and Ellen Bialystok: 3 shared papers
- Claude Alain and Ellen Bialystok: 3 shared papers
- Gillian Einstein and Natalie Phillips: 2 shared papers
- Cheryl Grady and Claude Alain: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Ryan and Ellen Bialystok: 1 shared paper
- Gillian Einstein and Howard Chertkow: 1 shared paper
- Gillian Einstein and Ellen Bialystok: 1 shared paper
- Howard Chertkow and Ellen Bialystok: 1 shared paper
- Cheryl Grady and Buddhika Bellana: 1 shared paper
- Tom Chau and Ellen Bialystok: 1 shared paper
- Natalie Phillips and Ellen Bialystok: 1 shared paper
- Diane Poulin-Dubois and Ellen Bialystok: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Bialystok and Buddhika Bellana: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Bialystok and Maggie Toplak: 1 shared paper
- Ellen Bialystok and Melody Wiseheart: 1 shared paper
- Maggie Toplak and Melody Wiseheart: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Glendon, Psychology
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Department of Psychology
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Rotman Research Institute
- Educational Psychology
- Other
Co-authors at York University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Cheryl Grady
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2018
Claude Alain
Psychology
3 shared papers, latest 2018
Buddhika Bellana
Glendon, Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Melody Wiseheart
Educational Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Maggie Toplak
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Howard Chertkow
Neurology and Neurosurgery
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Tom Chau
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Natalie Phillips
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Jennifer Ryan
Rotman Research Institute
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Diane Poulin-Dubois
Child and Adolescent Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Gillian Einstein
Department of Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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