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Bialystok, Ellen; Barac, Raluca – Cognition, 2012
The present studies revealed different factors associated with the reported advantages found in fully bilingual children for metalinguistic awareness and executive control. Participants were 100 children in Study 1 and 80 children in Study 2 in the process of becoming bilingual by attending immersion programs. In both studies, "level of…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Metalinguistics, Program Effectiveness, Bilingualism
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Pons, Ferran; Toro, Juan M. – Cognition, 2010
Recent research has suggested consonants and vowels serve different roles during language processing. While statistical computations are preferentially made over consonants but not over vowels, simple structural generalizations are easily made over vowels but not over consonants. Nevertheless, the origins of this asymmetry are unknown. Here we…
Descriptors: Vowels, Language Tests, Infants, Language Processing
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Kaufman, Scott Barry; DeYoung, Caroline G.; Gray, Jeremy R.; Jimenez, Luis; Brown, Jamie; Mackintosh, Nicholas – Cognition, 2010
The ability to automatically and implicitly detect complex and noisy regularities in the environment is a fundamental aspect of human cognition. Despite considerable interest in implicit processes, few researchers have conceptualized implicit learning as an ability with meaningful individual differences. Instead, various researchers (e.g., Reber,…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Structural Equation Models, Associative Learning, Personality