Brendan Weekes

Predictors of lexical retrieval in Hindi-English bilingual speakers

Keerthi Ramanujan, Brendan S Weekes

Journal article  |  2020  |  BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION

When bilinguals name pictures while in 'monolingual mode', we expect that under conditions of language-constraint and no cognate f..

Diffusing the bilingual lexicon: Task-based and lexical components of language switch costs

Gabriel Ong, Meredith McKague, Brendan Weekes, David K Sewell

Journal article  |  2019  |  COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Bilingual speakers show a response time (RT) cost when switching between languages. These costs could reflect the organization of ..

A diffusion model approach to analyzing performance on the Flanker task: The role of the DLPFC

Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Gabriel Ong, Jubin Abutalebi, Nicola Del Maschio, David Sewell, Brendan Weekes

Journal article  |  2019  |  BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are involved in conflict detection and conflict..

Response Modality and the Stroop Task Are There Phonological Stroop Effects With Manual Responses?

Benjamin A Parris, Dinkar Sharma, Brendan S Hackett Weekes, Mohammad Momenian, Maria Augustinova, Ludovic Ferrand

Journal article  |  2019  |  EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

A long-standing debate in the Stroop literature concerns whether the way we respond to the color dimension determines how we proce..

ACC Sulcal Patterns and Their Modulation on Cognitive Control Efficiency Across Lifespan: A Neuroanatomical Study on Bilinguals and Monolinguals

Nicola Del Maschio, Simone Sulpizio, Davide Fedeli, Keerthi Ramanujan, Guosheng Ding, Brendan S Weekes, Arnaud Cachia, Jubin Abutalebi

Journal article  |  2019  |  CEREBRAL CORTEX

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a key structure implicated in the regulation of cognitive control (CC). Previous studies su..

The Russian version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen: Validation study on stroke survivors.

Maria Shendyapina, Ekaterina Kuzmina, Sergey Kazymaev, Anna Petrova, Nele Demeyere, Brendan S Weekes

Journal article  |  2019  |  Neuropsychology

OBJECTIVE: The Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) is a screening tool for the assessment of poststroke deficits in attention, memory, p..

Microstructural anatomical differences between bilinguals and monolinguals

Nandini C Singh, Archith Rajan, Archana Malagi, Keerthi Ramanujan, Matteo Canini, Pasquale A Della Rosa, Partha Raghunathan, Brendan S Weekes, Jubin Abutalebi

Journal article  |  2018  |  BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION

DTI is an established method to study cerebral white-matter microstructure. Two established measures of DTI are fractional anisotr..

Neuroplasticity across the lifespan and aging effects in bilinguals and monolinguals

Nicola Del Maschio, Simone Sulpizio, Federico Gallo, Davide Fedeli, Brendan S Weekes, Jubin Abutalebi

Journal article  |  2018  |  BRAIN AND COGNITION

Evidence that bilingualism protects against age-related neurocognitive decline is mixed. One relatively consistent finding is that..

Dorsolateral Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Language Processing but Does Not Facilitate Overt Second Language Word Production

Narges Radman, Juliane Britz, Karin Buetler, Brendan S Weekes, Lucas Spierer, Jean-Marie Annoni

Journal article  |  2018  |  FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE

Word retrieval in bilingual speakers partly depends on executive control systems in the left prefrontal cortex - including dorsola..

Developing a Cantonese Version of Birmingham Cognitive Screen for Stroke Survivors in Hong Kong

APH Kong, J Chan, JKL Lau, WL Bickerton, B Weekes, G Humphreys

Journal article  |  2018  |  Communication Disorders Quarterly

The Birmingham Cognitive Screen (BCoS) is a neuropsychological battery designed to assess impairment to a variety of cognitive dom..