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Does Language Context Impact the Neural Correlates of Executive Control in Monolingual and Multilingual Young Adults?
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A Bilingual Advantage? An Appeal for a Change in Perspective and Recommendations for Future Research
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Supplementary materials "The effects of bidialectalism on executive function" ...
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Why is Lexical Retrieval Slower for Bilinguals? Evidence from Picture Naming*
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Bilingualism as a Model for Multitasking
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Because both languages of bilinguals are constantly active, bilinguals need to manage attention to the target language and avoid interference from the non-target language. This process is likely carried out by recruiting the executive function (EF) system, a system that is also the basis for multitasking. In previous research, bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals on tasks requiring EF, suggesting that the practice using EF for language management benefits performance in other tasks as well. The present study examined 203 children, 8-11 years old, who were monolingual, partially bilingual, bilingual, or trilingual performing a flanker task. Two results support the interpretation that bilingualism is related to multitasking. First, bilingual children outperformed monolinguals on the conflict trials in the flanker task, confirming previous results for a bilingual advantage in EF. Second, the inclusion of partial bilinguals and trilinguals set limits on the role of experience: partial bilingual performed similarly to monolinguals and trilinguals performed similarly to bilinguals, suggesting that degrees of experience are not well-calibrated to improvements in EF. Our conclusion is that the involvement of EF in bilingual language processing makes bilingualism a form of linguistic multitasking.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25821336 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371212/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2014.12.003
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