Bilinguals show a marginally smaller Stroop effect and higher overall Stroop accuracy than monolinguals¶
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q3 i? Planned comparisons revealed a marginally larger Stroop effect for accuracy in monolinguals than in bilinguals. → Blumenfeld Henrike K.; Marian Viorica 2011
q3 i? A marginal group effect on Stroop accuracy favored bilinguals. → Blumenfeld Henrike K.; Marian Viorica 2011
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Blumenfeld Henrike K.; Marian Viorica 2011¶
Blumenfeld Henrike K.; Marian Viorica. (2011). Bilingualism influences inhibitory control in auditory comprehension. Cognition. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582323/
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Nonlinguistic Stroop task (arrow direction vs. location) completed by the same 30 monolinguals and 30 bilinguals. "planned comparisons revealed a marginally larger Stroop effect for accuracy in monolinguals (Stroop size = 16.8%) than in bilinguals (Stroop size = 12.0%)"; group accuracy effect F(1,58) = 3.5, p = .07.
"planned comparisons revealed a marginally larger Stroop effect for accuracy in monolinguals (Stroop size = 16.8%, ηp2=.6) than in bilinguals (Stroop size = 12.0%, ηp2=.7, t(58) = 1.6, p = .05 (1-tailed)"
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Bilinguals show a marginally smaller Stroop effect and higher overall Stroop accuracy than monolinguals |
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Bilinguals show a marginally smaller Stroop effect and higher overall Stroop accuracy than monolinguals |
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2011 |
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