Escaping capture: bilingualism modulates distraction from working memory.

We ask whether bilingualism aids cognitive control over the inadvertent guidance of visual attention from working memory and from bottom-up cueing. We compare highly-proficient Catalan-Spanish bilinguals with Spanish monolinguals in three visual search conditions. In the working memory (WM) conditio...

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Main Authors: Hernández, M, Costa, A, Humphreys, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012