Bilingualism influences inhibitory control in auditory comprehension

Blumenfeld, Henrike K.; Marian, Viorica

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.012

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“…Constant recruitment of this mechanism by bilinguals leads to better behavioral performance on executive function tasks that measure cognitive control for both verbal and nonverbal stimuli (Costa et al, 2008;Blumenfeld and Marian, 2011). The present study shows that this prolonged bilingual experience leads to enhanced WM connectivity, which may be one mechanism underlying the bilingual advantage observed in EF performance.…”

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Lifelong Bilingualism Maintains White Matter Integrity in Older Adults

Luk¹,

Bialystok²,

Craik³

et al. 2011

J. Neurosci.

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Previous research has shown that bilingual speakers have higher levels of cognitive control than comparable monolinguals, especially at older ages. The present study investigates a possible neural correlate of this behavioral effect. Given that white matter (WM) integrity decreases with age in adulthood, we tested the hypothesis that bilingualism is associated with maintenance of WM in older people. Using diffusion tensor imaging, we found higher WM integrity in older people who were lifelong bilinguals than in monolinguals. This maintained integrity was measured by fractional anisotropy (FA) and was found in the corpus callosum extending to the superior and inferior longitudinal fasciculi. We also hypothesized that stronger WM connections would be associated with more widely distributed patterns of functional connectivity in bilinguals. We tested this by assessing the resting-state functional connectivity of frontal lobe regions adjacent to WM areas with group differences in FA. Bilinguals showed stronger anterior to posterior functional connectivity compared to monolinguals. These results are the first evidence that maintained WM integrity is related to lifelong naturally occurring experience; the resulting enhanced structural and functional connectivity may provide a neural basis for "brain reserve."

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lifelong Bilingualism Maintains White Matter Integrity in Older Adults

Luk¹,

Bialystok²,

Craik³

et al. 2011

J. Neurosci.

358

303

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“…Studies show that bilinguals may have advantage over monolinguals in tasks with linguistic stimuli (BLUMENFELD; MARIAN, 2011;FILIPPI et al, 2012). The advantage is shown in tasks in which interference must be suppressed for successful processing of the target stimulus.…”

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“…This hypothesis was formulated with relation to the studies of Blumenfeld and Marian (2011) and Filippi et al (2012), who found that bilinguals have superior to monolinguals in tasks involving linguistic interference suppression performance.…”

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“…In order to investigate listening comprehension with competition between two languages, Blumenfeld and Marian (2011) developed a priming experiment. Participants listened to the words in their first language (English) and identified the target word in four figures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The bilingual advantage has been identified in tasks in which competing auditory stimuli has to be suppressed for successful comprehension of target stimuli. Studies have yet to establish a more clear relation between advantages in comprehension processes and in executive functions in bilinguals (BLUMENFELD; MARIAN, 2011).…”

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Os efeitos do bilinguismo e do multilinguismo nas funções executivas

Limberger

Buchweitz

2014

Fórum Linguist.

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RESUMO: Pesquisas têm constatado que bilíngues e multilíngues tem desempenho superior em comparação com monolíngues em tarefas não linguísticas que envolvem processamento executivo. Contudo, os estudos sobre vantagem bilíngue ou multilíngue em tarefas linguísticas são mais escassos, e os resultados, menos consensuais. No Brasil, os benefícios das funções executivas no bilinguismo não têm sido consistentemente identificados nas populações bilíngues, sobretudo nos falantes da língua minoritária Hunsrückisch (uma variedade da língua alemã RESUMEN: Investigaciones encontraron que bilingües y multilingües tienen un rendimiento superior en comparación a monolingües en tareas no lingüísticas de procesamiento ejecutivo. No obstante, las investigaciones sobre ventaja bilingüe y multilingüe en tareas lingüísticas son más escasas y los resultados son menos consensuales. En Brasil, los beneficios del bilingüismo en las funciones ejecutivas no se encuentran efectivamente, incluso en los hablantes de la lengua minoritaria Hunsrückisch (una variedad de la lengua alemana). El objetivo general de esta investigación es buscar el rendimiento de adultos bilingües y multilingües hablantes de Hunsrückisch en una tarea no lingüística, la Attentional Network Task y en otra lingüística, la Tarea de Comprensión de Frases, y compararlos con monolingües. Los resultados demuestran que los multilingües hicieron más rápido la tarea no lingüística que los monolingües. Parte de los resultados de la otra tarea enseñan que los monolingües tuvieran más facilidad de inhibir la interferencia lingüística. PALABRAS CLAVE: Bilingüismo; Multilingüismo; Procesamiento ejecutivo; Lenguas minoritarias.ABSTRACT: Studies have shown that bilinguals and multilinguals have superior performance compared to monolinguals in nonlinguistic tasks that tap into executive functioning. However, studies of bilingual and multilingual advantages in linguistic tasks are fewer and the results are less consensual. In Brazil, the positive effects of executive functions in bilingualism have not been consistently identified in the bilingual populations, especially in speakers of the minority language Hunsrückisch (a German dialect). The main goal of this study was to investigate the performance of bilinguals and multilinguals speakers of Hunsrückisch compared to monolinguals in a nonlinguistic task, the Attentional Network Task, and in a linguistic task, the Sentence Comprehension Task. The results show that multilinguals were faster in comparison to monolinguals in the nonlinguistic task. The results for the linguistic task, in turn, show that the monolinguals had more facility to inhibiting the linguistic interference.

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Grosjean¹

2018

The Listening Bilingual

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Bilingualism influences inhibitory control in auditory comprehension

Cited by 199 publications

References 74 publications

Lifelong Bilingualism Maintains White Matter Integrity in Older Adults

Lifelong Bilingualism Maintains White Matter Integrity in Older Adults

Os efeitos do bilinguismo e do multilinguismo nas funções executivas

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