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Bialystok, Ellen – Developmental Psychology, 2010
In 3 experiments, a total of 151 monolingual and bilingual 6-year-old children performed similarly on measures of language and cognitive ability; however, bilinguals solved the global-local and trail-making tasks more rapidly than monolinguals. This bilingual advantage was found not only for the traditionally demanding conditions (incongruent…
Descriptors: Children, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Cognitive Processes
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Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Hunt, Dennis – 1976
Individual differences in perceptual information processing were tested using 327 ten year old children, with verbal tasks representing successive information processing and spatial tasks representing simultaneous information processing. Three sets of tasks, (1) visual/reconstruction (V/R), (2) visual/verbal (V/VL), and (3) verbal/reconstruction…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Characteristics