“…On the bilingualism side, the IC model (Green, 1998) proposes that bilinguals rely on active inhibition for successful language production, and this in turn makes them better inhibitors overall. Consequently, the expectations for domain general functioning would be that older bilinguals exhibit an advantage in inhibitory control, as indeed reported in a number of studies showing that older bilingual adults score better in domain general tasks such as the Simon task, and other cognitive control tasks (Bialystok, Craig, & Klein, 2004; Bialystok & Craik, 2010; Bialystok, Craik, & Freedman, 2007; Fernandes et al, 2007; Keijzer, 2013; see keynote by Baum & Titone, 2014 for a thorough discussion on the topic of bilingualism, executive control and aging).…”