Abstract

Objective
Early-life socioeconomic factors, such as education, closely associated with the opportunity to become multilingual (ML), are important determinants of late-life cognition. To study the cognitive advantage of multilingualism, it is critical to disentangle whether cognitive benefit is driven by multilingualism or education. With rich linguistic diversity across all socioeconomic gradients, India provides an excellent setting to examine the role of multilingualism on cognition among individuals with and without education.
Method
Using data from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India-Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia, we evaluated the association of multilingualism by language similarity (i.e., speaking languages from the same or different language families) and education with cognition. Longitudinal Aging Study in India-Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia is a nationally representative sample of older Indian adults …

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

Sarah Petrosyan, Iris M Strangmann, Emma Nichols, Erik Meijer, Emily M Briceño, Shrikanth Narayanan, Jinkook Lee, Miguel Arce Rentería

Journal

Neuropsychology

Volume

39

Issue

3

Pages

223-234