Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered
To examine how task demands influence bilingual advantage in executive control over monolinguals, we tested 32 Chinese monolinguals and 32 Chinese–English bilinguals with four versions of a color-shape switching task. During switching trials, the task required participants to suppress one set of con...
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| author | Qu, Li Low, Joel Jia Wei Zhang, Ting Li, Hong Zelazo, Philip David |
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| description | To examine how task demands influence bilingual advantage in executive control over monolinguals, we tested 32 Chinese monolinguals and 32 Chinese–English bilinguals with four versions of a color-shape switching task. During switching trials, the task required participants to suppress one set of conflicting (or non-conflicting) responses and simultaneously to activate another set of conflicting (or non-conflicting) responses. The results showed that compared to monolinguals, (i) when suppressing conflicting responses or (ii) activating non-conflicting responses, bilinguals had significantly smaller switching costs though similar mixing costs; (iii) when suppressing one set of conflicting responses and simultaneously activating another set of conflicting responses, bilinguals had significantly smaller switching costs though larger mixing costs; and (iv) when suppressing one set of non-conflicting responses and simultaneously activating another set of non-conflicting responses, bilinguals had similar switching costs and mixing costs. These findings indicate that task demands affect bilingual advantage in executive control. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1070712019-12-06T22:24:11Z Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered Qu, Li Low, Joel Jia Wei Zhang, Ting Li, Hong Zelazo, Philip David School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Language To examine how task demands influence bilingual advantage in executive control over monolinguals, we tested 32 Chinese monolinguals and 32 Chinese–English bilinguals with four versions of a color-shape switching task. During switching trials, the task required participants to suppress one set of conflicting (or non-conflicting) responses and simultaneously to activate another set of conflicting (or non-conflicting) responses. The results showed that compared to monolinguals, (i) when suppressing conflicting responses or (ii) activating non-conflicting responses, bilinguals had significantly smaller switching costs though similar mixing costs; (iii) when suppressing one set of conflicting responses and simultaneously activating another set of conflicting responses, bilinguals had significantly smaller switching costs though larger mixing costs; and (iv) when suppressing one set of non-conflicting responses and simultaneously activating another set of non-conflicting responses, bilinguals had similar switching costs and mixing costs. These findings indicate that task demands affect bilingual advantage in executive control. 2015-04-06T06:15:16Z 2019-12-06T22:24:10Z 2015-04-06T06:15:16Z 2019-12-06T22:24:10Z 2015 2015 Journal Article Qu, L., Low, J. J. W., Zhang, T., Li, H., & Zelazo, P. D. Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered. Bilingualism: language and cognition, 19(2), 277-293. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107071 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000376 en Bilingualism : language and cognition © 2015 Cambridge University Press. 18 p. |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities::Language Qu, Li Low, Joel Jia Wei Zhang, Ting Li, Hong Zelazo, Philip David Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered |
| title | Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered |
| title_full | Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered |
| title_fullStr | Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered |
| title_short | Bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered |
| title_sort | bilingual advantage in executive control when task demands are considered |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities::Language |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107071 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000376 |
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