Bilingual children show a flatter pattern of attended-speech encoding across conditions, driven by weaker encoding in low- or no-interference conditions¶
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q3 i? Monolinguals encoded attended streams more strongly than bilinguals in the Single talker and English–MuR conditions, with no group difference in the two linguistic interference conditions. → Jacqueline Phelps 2022
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Jacqueline Phelps 2022¶
Jacqueline Phelps, Adam Attaheri & Mirjana Bozic. (2022). How bilingualism modulates selective attention in children. Scientific Reports 12:6381. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09989-x
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Pairwise between-group comparisons of attended-stream reconstruction accuracy per condition in the EEG study of 48 children. The group-by-condition interaction [F(3, 18,283.7) = 3.59, p < 0.05] was explored via these per-condition tests.
"These pairwise comparisons for individual conditions showed significantly higher attentional encoding in monolinguals than in bilinguals in the Single talker and English–MuR conditions [t = 3.12, p < 0.01, d = 0.09; and t = 5.32, p < 0.001, d = 0.16, respectively], but no difference between the groups in the two linguistic interference conditions"
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Related Claims¶
- Monolingual and bilingual children perform the dichotic comprehension task equivalently, with both groups finding English–English interference hardest
- Unattended Musical Rain streams were better reconstructed than unattended linguistic distractors in both groups, with stronger MuR encoding in monolinguals
- Bilingual children perform worse than monolinguals on attention tasks with verbal stimuli but not non-verbal ones — related
- Selective attention improves neural encoding of attended speech envelopes in children aged 7–12 — related
- The study found no evidence for enhanced attentional capacity in bilingual children, behaviourally or neurally — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
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Bilingual children show a flatter pattern of attended-speech encoding across conditions, driven by weaker encoding in low- or no-interference conditions |
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Bilingual children show a flatter pattern of attended-speech encoding across conditions, driven by weaker encoding in low- or no-interference conditions |
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