Effect of bilingualism on cognitive control in the Simon task: evidence from MEG

Bialystok, Ellen; Craik, Fergus I. M.; Grady, Cheryl L.; Chau, Wilkin; Ishii, Ryouhei; Gunji, Atsuko; Pantev, Christo

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.09.044

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“…4 Performance of monolingual and bilingual young adults on interference tasks Seven studies, comprising eight sets of data, were extracted from various experiments investigating, between language groups, flanker interference/ANT (Costa et al, 2009;Costa et al, 2008;Luk, Anderson, Craik, Grady, & Bialystok, 2010), Simon (Bialystok, Craik, et al, 2005;Bialystok, Martin, & Viswanathan, 2005), and spatial Stroop Bialystok & DePape, 2009) tasks. For studies in which the standard Simon and flanker tasks were used and in which there was a random but equal assortment of congruent and incongruent trials, the magnitude of the difference scores on the interference effect (left side of Fig.…”

Section: Interference and Global Effects Across The Lifespanmentioning

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Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes

2011

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It has been proposed that the unique need for early bilinguals to manage multiple languages while their executive control mechanisms are developing might result in long-term cognitive advantages on inhibitory control processes that generalize beyond the language domain. We review the empirical data from the literature on nonlinguistic interference tasks to assess the validity of this proposed bilingual inhibitory control advantage. Our review of these findings reveals that the bilingual advantage on conflict resolution, which by hypothesis is mediated by inhibitory control, is sporadic at best, and in some cases conspicuously absent. A robust finding from this review is that bilinguals typically outperform monolinguals on both compatible and incompatible trials, often by similar magnitudes. Together, these findings suggest that bilinguals do enjoy a more widespread cognitive advantage (a bilingual executive processing advantage) that is likely observable on a variety of cognitive assessment tools but that, somewhat ironically, is most often not apparent on traditional assays of nonlinguistic inhibitory control processes.

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Section: Interference and Global Effects Across The Lifespanmentioning

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Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes

2011

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“…Departing from previous studies that have utilised a single task to assess executive processes (c.f., Antón, et al, 2014;Bialystok, Craik, Grady, Chau, Ishii, Gunji, & Pantev, 2005;Bialystok & Viswanathan, 2009;Duñabeitia et al, 2014;Kirk, Fiala, Scott-Brown, & Kempe, 2014;Prior & Gollan, 2011) we were keen to employ multiple tasks measuring various aspects of attention and working memory to help identify more precisely which aspects of cognition are privileged in bilingualism. Previous studies have differentiated two processes related to attentionone that facilitates suppression of irrelevant information and the other that aids inhibiting prepotent response tendencies (e.g., Bunge, Dudukovic, Thomason, Vaidya & Gabrieli, 2002).…”

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Enhancing the learning of new words using an errorless learning procedure: Evidence from typical adults

Warmington

Hitch

2013

Memory

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“…This advantage extends to nonverbal problem solving (Bialystok & Martin, 2004) and numeracy (Bialystok & Codd, 1997). Recent experiments on adult bilinguals led to the conclusion that the advantages of bilingualism persist well beyond childhood (Bialystok, 2006;Bialystok et al, 2005;Bialystok, Craik, Klein, & Viswanathan, 2004;Bialystok, Craik, & Ruocco, 2006;Bialystok, Craik, & Ryan, 2006).…”

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Spatial negative priming in bilingualism

Treccani

Argyri

Sorace

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Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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Balanced bilinguals have been shown to have an enhanced ability to inhibit distracting information. In this study, we investigated the hypothesis that the bilinguals' efficiency in inhibitory control can be advantageous in some conditions, but disadvantageous in others-for example, negative priming conditions, in which previously irrelevant information becomes relevant. Data collected in a target-stimulus locating task from 29 early bilingual adults and 29 age-matched monolinguals showed that the bilinguals' greater inhibition of irrelevant spatial information (i.e., the position of a distractor stimulus) resulted in a smaller effect of the distractor presence (i.e., a smaller difference in error rates in trials with and without distractors) and a larger negative priming effect (i.e., a larger difference between the error rates shown in trials wherein the target position corresponded to the position of the previous-trial distractor and trials wherein the target was presented in a previously vacant position). These findings support the hypothesis of specific nonlinguistic cognitive effects of bilingualism on inhibitory control functions, which are not necessarily reflected in cognitive advantages.

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Effect of bilingualism on cognitive control in the Simon task: evidence from MEG

Cited by 350 publications

References 38 publications

Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes

Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes

Enhancing the learning of new words using an errorless learning procedure: Evidence from typical adults

Spatial negative priming in bilingualism

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