Bilingual and monolingual 8-year-olds do not differ in response suppression costs¶

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q3 i? The response suppression cost (red minus green eye RT) did not differ significantly across the three language groups. → 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

q3 · i? · associational · r1

Null cost analysis from the faces task with ninety 8-year-olds in three groups. No effect size was printed, so the finding is a non-significant group difference, not a measured null effect; equivalence was not tested.

"Response suppression was operationalized as the RT difference between red eye and green eye trials (combining Figures 2 and 3). A one-way ANOVA for language group showed that the difference between the three groups was not significant, F (2, 87) = 2.38, p = .10."

Discussion¶

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