Bilingual 8-year-olds show smaller inhibitory-control costs than monolinguals on the faces task¶
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q3 i? Monolingual children produced a larger inhibitory-control cost (mixed gaze-shift minus mixed straight-eye RT difference) than either bilingual group, who did not differ from each other. → Bialystok Ellen 2009
Evidence¶
Bialystok Ellen 2009¶
Bialystok Ellen, Viswanathan Mythili. (2009). Components of Executive Control with Advantages for Bilingual Children in Two Cultures. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.014
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Cost analysis from the faces task with ninety 8-year-olds in three language groups. Inhibitory control was "the difference between mixed presentation trials that included gaze shift and mixed presentation trials with straight eyes", and monolinguals showed the larger cost.
"Monolinguals produced a larger cost than either of the two bilingual groups, F (2, 87) = 21.34, p < .0001, with the two bilingual groups not different from each other."
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Bilingual 8-year-olds show smaller inhibitory-control costs than monolinguals on the faces task |
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Bilingual 8-year-olds show smaller inhibitory-control costs than monolinguals on the faces task |
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