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Simultaneous interpretation as a cooperative language context
Laura Babcock (University of Padova) & Antonino Vallesi (University of Padova) [email protected] Simultaneous interpretation; Inhibitory control; Language switching; Multilingualism; n-2 repetition cost Simultaneous interpretation is an impressive cognitive feat which requires an individual to comprehend a stream of auditory material in one language and with a few seconds delay produce the same content in another […]
Bilingualism facilitates the monitoring of different cognitive control mechanisms
Julia Morales (University of Granada), Carlos J. Gómez-Ariza (University of Jaen) & Teresa Bajo (University of Granada) [email protected] Bilingualism; Flanker task; Interference suppression; Monitoring; Response inhibition Recent research shows that bilinguals excel monolinguals in coordinating different executive functions [1] [2]. We further explored this idea by employing an adapted version of the flanker task, which […]
The Effect of Second Language Proficiency on Inhibitory Control: An Ex-Gaussian Analysis
Eve Higby (Graduate Center of the City University of New York), Seamus Donnelly (Graduate Center of the City University of New York), & Jungmee Yoon (Graduate Center of the City University of New York) [email protected] Inhibition; Second language acquisition; Reaction time; Ex-Gaussian Several studies have reported superior performance on executive function tasks for bilinguals compared […]
It’s not that simple: Sequential congruency effects reveal a bilingual disengagement advantage
John G. Grundy & Ellen Bialystok (York University, Toronto ON) [email protected] Conflict adaptation; Sequential congruency effects; Bilingual advantage; Disengagement; Language Behavioral evidence for cognitive control changes as a function of bilingualism on conflict resolution tasks and other higher-order executive function tasks has accrued for infants, children, adolescents, and older adults. Surprisingly however, this performance benefit […]
Individual differences in cognitive and language control in advanced age among late Dutch-English bilinguals
Merel Keijzer (University of Groningen) & Monika S. Schmid (University of Essex) [email protected] Healthy aging; Language proficiency; L1 attrition; Working Memory (WM); Set shifting tests; Language use ; Dutch; English Recent years have seen a host of studies on healthy aging. The topicality of healthy aging fits in well with the increasingly larger proportion of […]
The effect of taxing inhibitory control on bilingual language switching: Evidence from dual-task paradigms
Alison R. Shell (University of Maryland, College Park) & L. Robert Slevc (University of Maryland, College Park) [email protected] Bilingualism; Language production; Inhibitory Control; Language Switching; Dual task An influential account of how bilingual speakers manage interference between languages is the inhibitory control (IC) model [1], which proposes that bilinguals rely on domain-general IC mechanisms to […]
An Investigation of Switching Cost through Lexical Decision Task
Qian Zhou (University of Maryland) & Nan Jiang (University of Maryland) [email protected]; [email protected] Switching cost; L1-L2 processing; Visual word recognition; Monolingual and mixed context; Chinese English Thirty Chinese-English bilinguals completed three lexical decision tasks — a Chinese monolingual condition, an English monolingual condition, and a mixed language condition. Critical stimuli in the mixed list consisted […]
Congenital amusia and executive functioning
Nathalie Gosselin (University of Montreal; International Laboratory of Brain, Music, and Sound Research -BRAMS; Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music – CRBLM), Ellen Bialystok (York University), Mihaela Felezeu (BRAMS), & Isabelle Peretz (University of Montreal; BRAMS; CRBLM) [email protected] Executive functioning, Stroop, Congenital amusia, Musical experience Congenital amusia is a life-long musical disorder that […]
Relating the demands of bilingual language control to inhibition: An individual differences approach
Chantel S. Prat, Brianna L. Yamasaki, Jose M. Ceballos & Roy Seo (Department of Psychology & Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington) [email protected] individual differences; inhibition; executive functioning; bilingualism; language similarity; language use Language is one of the most complex feats of the human mind and brain, involving the retrieval and manipulation […]
No bilingual advantages across five switching tasks
Kenneth Paap (SFSU), Morgan Bockelman (SFSU), Hunter Johnson (SFSU), Eugene Eusebio (SFSU), Sarah Wagner (SFSU), Angel Avalos (SFSU), & Oliver Sawi (University of Connecticut) [email protected] Bilingualism; Switching; Execution Functions; Verbal Fluency Two hundred SFSU students (55% bilingual) completed three standard switching tasks: color-shape, letter-number, and living-size. We replicated Friedman, et al.’s [1] report of significant […]
