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Bingyi Liu; Keke Yu; John W. Schwieter; Peiling Sun; Ruiming Wang – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The relationship between language switching and task switching has been well studied in bilingualism literature. This study employs novel experiments involving magnitude-parity switching and transparency-orientation switching and compares the costs associated with these two types of task switching with language switching. Switching costs and the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Psycholinguistics, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism
Siqi Ning – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language can alter our mental conceptions of space, time, and categories. While there is compelling evidence that thought can be shaped by syntactic, morphological, and lexical features of a language, less is known about the impact of phonology on thought. This dissertation uses novel objects (alien cartoon figures) and pseudoword names in three…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semantics, Phonology, Color
Yifei Gong; Klavs Hansen; Jianlin Chen – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Despite the worldwide prevalence of multilingualism, the knowledge of the relationship between domain-general cognitive control and multilingual language control remains scant. Here we provide new insights into this issue by examining systematically how different components of inhibitory control (i.e., response inhibition and interference…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Language Processing, Multilingualism, Psycholinguistics
Guðmundsdóttir, Margrét D.; Lesk, Valerie E. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This study examined whether the proposed bilingual advantage in inhibitory control and working memory can be extended to a trilingual advantage, and assessed any age-related effects on a continuum in young adults to older adults. Trilinguals, bilinguals and monolinguals' performance on the Simon task and a numerical version of the N-back task was…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
Words versus Pictures: Bilingual Performance on Verbal and Pictorial Measures of Executive Functions
Alateeq, Halah; Azuma, Tamiko – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study examined bilinguals' performance on functional executive function map tasks such as the Zoo Map from the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome and the extent to which working memory, set-shifting, and inhibition measures predicted bilinguals' performance on these tasks. Additionally, we explored the utility of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Scores, Maps, Pictorial Stimuli
Spinelli, Giacomo; Goldsmith, Samantha F.; Lupker, Stephen J.; Morton, J. Bruce – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
According to some accounts, the bilingual advantage is most pronounced in the domain of executive attention rather than inhibition and should therefore be more easily detected in conflict adaptation paradigms than in simple interference paradigms. We tested this idea using two conflict adaptation paradigms, one that elicits a list-wide…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Executive Function, Attention Control, Interference (Language)
Shoghi Javan, Sara; Ghonsooly, Behzad – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
The complicated cognitive processes involved in natural (primary) bilingualism lead to significant cognitive development. Executive functions as a fundamental component of human cognition are deemed to be affected by language learning. To date, a large number of studies have investigated how natural (primary) bilingualism influences executive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
de Bot, Kees; Fang, Fang – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
Human behavior is not constant over the hours of the day, and there are considerable individual differences. Some people raise early and go to bed early and have their peek performance early in the day ("larks") while others tend to go to bed late and get up late and have their best performance later in the day ("owls"). In…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Sleep, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
Darcy, Isabelle; Mora, Joan C.; Daidone, Danielle – Language Learning, 2016
This study investigated the role of inhibition in second language (L2) learners' phonological processing. Participants were Spanish learners of L2 English and American learners of L2 Spanish. We measured inhibition through a retrieval-induced inhibition task. Accuracy of phonological representations (perception and production) was assessed through…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Processing, Classification, Task Analysis
Mercier, Julie; Pivneva, Irina; Titone, Debra – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
We investigated whether individual differences in inhibitory control relate to bilingual spoken word recognition. While their eye movements were monitored, native English and native French English-French bilinguals listened to English words (e.g., "field") and looked at pictures corresponding to the target, a within-language competitor…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
Poarch, Gregory J.; van Hell, Janet G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
In two experiments, we examined inhibitory control processes in three groups of bilinguals and trilinguals that differed in nonnative language proficiency and language learning background. German 5- to 8-year-old second-language learners of English, German-English bilinguals, German-English-Language X trilinguals, and 6- to 8-year-old German…
Descriptors: Evidence, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Language Proficiency
Blackburn, Angelique Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Bilinguals sometimes outperform age-matched monolinguals on non-language tasks involving cognitive control. But the bilingual advantage is not consistently found in every experiment and may reflect specific attributes of the bilinguals tested. The goal of this dissertation was to determine if the way in which bilinguals use language, specifically…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Interference (Language), Cognitive Ability
Areas da Luz Fontes, Ana B.; Schwartz, Ana I. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
This study investigated the role of verbal working memory on bilingual lexical disambiguation. Spanish-English bilinguals read sentences that ended in either a cognate or noncognate homonym or a control word. Participants decided whether follow-up target words were related in meaning to the sentences. On critical trials, sentences biased the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
Stafford, Catherine A. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
This exploratory study investigated executive attention during nonverbal and verbal processing among adults with a range of bilingual experience. Previous research has found that bilingual children control their attention better than their monolingual peers and that superior attentional control in some processing contexts persists into adulthood…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes