The Relationship between Language Control, Semantic Control and Nonverbal Control
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between language control, semantic control, and nonverbal control in bilingual aphasia. Twelve bilingual adults with aphasia (BPWA) and 20 age-matched bilingual adults (AMBA) completed a language control task, semantic control task, and nonve...
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| description | The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between language control, semantic control, and nonverbal control in bilingual aphasia. Twelve bilingual adults with aphasia (BPWA) and 20 age-matched bilingual adults (AMBA) completed a language control task, semantic control task, and nonverbal control task, each designed to examine resistance to distractor interference. AMBA and BPWA exhibited significant effects of control on all tasks. To examine efficiency of control, conflict magnitudes for each task and group were analyzed. Findings revealed that AMBA exhibited larger conflict magnitudes on the semantic control task and nonverbal control task compared to the language control task, whereas BPWA exhibited no difference in conflict magnitudes between the language control task and semantic control task. Further analysis revealed that BPWA semantic control conflict magnitude was smaller than AMBA semantic control conflict magnitude. Taken together, these findings suggest that BPWA present with diminished effects of semantic control. In the final analysis, conflict magnitudes across tasks were correlated. For AMBA, semantic control and nonverbal control conflict magnitudes were significantly correlated, suggesting that these two types of control are related. For BPWA, language control and nonverbal control conflict magnitudes were significantly correlated; however, this finding may capture effects of domain general cognitive control as a function of increased cognitive load, rather than domain general cognitive control as a function of language control. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b952e81771d4aaca8f491eb0aa155dd2023-11-20T20:01:51ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2020-11-01101116910.3390/bs10110169The Relationship between Language Control, Semantic Control and Nonverbal ControlTeresa Gray0Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Graduate College of Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USAThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between language control, semantic control, and nonverbal control in bilingual aphasia. Twelve bilingual adults with aphasia (BPWA) and 20 age-matched bilingual adults (AMBA) completed a language control task, semantic control task, and nonverbal control task, each designed to examine resistance to distractor interference. AMBA and BPWA exhibited significant effects of control on all tasks. To examine efficiency of control, conflict magnitudes for each task and group were analyzed. Findings revealed that AMBA exhibited larger conflict magnitudes on the semantic control task and nonverbal control task compared to the language control task, whereas BPWA exhibited no difference in conflict magnitudes between the language control task and semantic control task. Further analysis revealed that BPWA semantic control conflict magnitude was smaller than AMBA semantic control conflict magnitude. Taken together, these findings suggest that BPWA present with diminished effects of semantic control. In the final analysis, conflict magnitudes across tasks were correlated. For AMBA, semantic control and nonverbal control conflict magnitudes were significantly correlated, suggesting that these two types of control are related. For BPWA, language control and nonverbal control conflict magnitudes were significantly correlated; however, this finding may capture effects of domain general cognitive control as a function of increased cognitive load, rather than domain general cognitive control as a function of language control.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/10/11/169bilingual aphasiainhibitory controlcognitive controlresistance to distractor interferencebilingual language control |
| spellingShingle | Teresa Gray The Relationship between Language Control, Semantic Control and Nonverbal Control Behavioral Sciences bilingual aphasia inhibitory control cognitive control resistance to distractor interference bilingual language control |
| title | The Relationship between Language Control, Semantic Control and Nonverbal Control |
| title_full | The Relationship between Language Control, Semantic Control and Nonverbal Control |
| title_fullStr | The Relationship between Language Control, Semantic Control and Nonverbal Control |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship between Language Control, Semantic Control and Nonverbal Control |
| title_short | The Relationship between Language Control, Semantic Control and Nonverbal Control |
| title_sort | relationship between language control semantic control and nonverbal control |
| topic | bilingual aphasia inhibitory control cognitive control resistance to distractor interference bilingual language control |
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