Does language proficiency modulate oculomotor control? Evidence from Hindi–English bilinguals

Singh, Niharika; Mishra, Ramesh Kumar

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“…The fact that we did not find any contribution of L2 proficiency in cognitive control advantages runs contradictory to findings from a few previous studies with children (Iluz-Cohen & ArmonLotem, 2013;Videsott et al, 2012) or young adults (Singh & Mishra, 2012Tse & Altarriba, 2012). This may be attributed to a few reasons.…”

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“…Videsott, Della Rosa, Wiater, Franceschini, and Abutalebi (2012) suggest that proficiency levels in early multilingual children may play a crucial role in the development and enhancement of the alerting component of the attentional system in cognitive control. In other studies, language proficiency has been reported relevant to cognitive control performance on tasks requiring conflict resolution and goal maintenance (Tse & Altarriba, 2012), on tasks requiring inhibition (Singh & Mishra, 2012 and on tasks requiring inhibition and shifting (Iluz-Cohen & Armon-Lotem, 2013). However, language proficiency, as a complex construct (Hulstijn, 2012), generally does not reveal what degrees of proficiency may lead to better cognitive control.…”

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Contributions of second language proficiency and interpreting experience to cognitive control differences among young adult bilinguals

Dong

Xie

2014

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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Contributions of second language proficiency and interpreting experience to cognitive control differences among young adult bilinguals

Dong

Xie

2014

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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“…In inhibitory control specifically, bilinguals generally show smaller interference effects (the RT difference between incongruent and control trials) than monolinguals on both linguistic and non-linguistic conflict paradigms like the Stroop and Simon tasks [38]–[45], suggesting superior abilities at managing and resolving domain-general conflict. The smaller conflict effects for bilinguals when comparing incongruent and congruent trials is termed the bilingual ‘interference advantage’.…”

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Electrophysiological Explorations of the Bilingual Advantage: Evidence from a Stroop Task

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Heuven

2014

PLoS ONE

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Bilinguals have been shown to exhibit a performance advantage on executive control tasks, outperforming their monolingual counterparts. Although a wealth of research has investigated this ‘bilingual advantage’ behaviourally, electrophysiological correlates are lacking. Using EEG with a Stroop task that manipulated the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) of word and colour presentation, the current study addressed two facets of the bilingual advantage. The possibility that bilinguals experience superior conflict processing relative to monolinguals (a ‘conflict-specific advantage’) was investigated by comparing behavioural interference effects as well as the amplitude of the Ninc, a conflict-related ERP component occurring from approximately 300–500 ms after the onset of conflict. In contrast, the hypothesis that bilinguals experience domain-general, conflict-independent enhancements in executive processing (a ‘non-conflict-specific advantage’) was evaluated by comparing the control condition (symbol strings) between groups. There was some significant, but inconsistent, evidence for a conflict-specific bilingual advantage. In contrast, strong evidence emerged for a non-conflict-specific advantage, with bilinguals demonstrating faster RTs and reduced ERP amplitudes on control trials compared to monolinguals. Importantly, when the control stimulus was presented before the colour, ERPs to control trials revealed group differences before the onset of conflict, suggesting differences in the ability to ignore or suppress distracting irrelevant information. This indicates that bilinguals experience superior executive processing even in the absence of conflict and semantic salience, and suggests that the advantage extends to more efficient proactive management of the environment.

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“…One possible explanation for these advantages is that bilinguals engage domain-general cognitive control mechanisms to manage the cognitive demands of bilingual language processing (e.g., Blumenfeld & Marian, 2011; Linck, Schwieter, & Sunderman, 2012; Pivneva, Palmer, & Titone, 2012; Prior & Gollan, 2011; Soveri, Rodriguez-Fornells, & Laine, 2011). Over time, growing experience with managing these demands might enhance nonlinguistic cognitive control abilities (e.g., Blumenfeld & Marian, 2013; Luk et al, 2011; Singh & Mishra, 2012). …”

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Parallel language activation and inhibitory control in bimodal bilinguals

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Findings from recent studies suggest that spoken-language bilinguals engage nonlinguistic inhibitory control mechanisms to resolve cross-linguistic competition during auditory word recognition. Bilingual advantages in inhibitory control might stem from the need to resolve perceptual competition between similar-sounding words both within and between their two languages. If so, these advantages should be lessened or eliminated when there is no perceptual competition between two languages. The present study investigated the extent of inhibitory control recruitment during bilingual language comprehension by examining associations between language co-activation and nonlinguistic inhibitory control abilities in bimodal bilinguals, whose two languages do not perceptually compete. Cross-linguistic distractor activation was identified in the visual world paradigm, and correlated significantly with performance on a nonlinguistic spatial Stroop task within a group of 27 hearing ASL-English bilinguals. Smaller Stroop effects (indexing more efficient inhibition) were associated with reduced co-activation of ASL signs during the early stages of auditory word recognition. These results suggest that the role of inhibitory control in auditory word recognition is not limited to resolving perceptual linguistic competition in phonological input, but is also used to moderate competition that originates at the lexico-semantic level.

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Does language proficiency modulate oculomotor control? Evidence from Hindi–English bilinguals

Cited by 63 publications

References 56 publications

Contributions of second language proficiency and interpreting experience to cognitive control differences among young adult bilinguals

Contributions of second language proficiency and interpreting experience to cognitive control differences among young adult bilinguals

Electrophysiological Explorations of the Bilingual Advantage: Evidence from a Stroop Task

Parallel language activation and inhibitory control in bimodal bilinguals

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