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Andreou, Maria and Skrimpa, Vasileia ORCID: 0000-0002-5633-7740 (2022). Re-Examining Labels in Neurocognitive Research: Evidence from Bilingualism and Autism as Spectrum-Trait Cases. Brain Sci., 12 (8). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2076-3425

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Abstract

Despite the fact that the urge to investigate bilingualism and neurodevelopmental disorders as continuous indices rather than categorical ones has been well-voiced among researchers with respect to research methodological approaches, in the recent literature, when it comes to examining language, cognitive skills and neurodivergent characteristics, it is still the case that the most prevalent view is the categorisation of adults or children into groups. In other words, there is a categorisation of individuals, e.g., monolingual vs. bilingual children or children with typical and atypical/non-typical/non-neurotypical development. We believe that this labelling is responsible for the conflicting results that we often come across in studies. The aim of this review is to bring to the surface the importance of individual differences through the study of relevant articles conducted in bilingual children and children with autism, who are ideal for this study. We concur with researchers who already do so, and we further suggest moving away from labels and instead shift towards the view that not everything is either white or black. We provide suggestions as to how this shift could be implemented in research, while mostly aiming at starting a discourse rather than offering a definite path.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Andreou, Maria UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Skrimpa, Vasileia UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5633-7740 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-667118
DOI:	10.3390/brainsci12081113
Journal or Publication Title:	Brain Sci.
Volume:	12
Number:	8
Date:	2022
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2076-3425
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language INTRAINDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; HETEROGENEITY; DISORDER; CLASSIFICATION; NEURODIVERSITY; FRAMEWORK; CRITERIA; CHILDREN Multiple languages Neurosciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66711