Individual differences in attentional control predict working memory capacity in adults who stutter

Tichenor, Seth E; Wray, Amanda Hampton; Ravizza, Susan M.; Yaruss, J. Scott

doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106273

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“…Attention and WM have increasingly been recognized as interconnected [ 21 , 22 ]. Specifically, attention is necessary for WM since it facilitates the activation, maintenance, and manipulation of the information stored in the mind [ 23 , 24 ]. Meanwhile, WM actively directs attention to relevant behavioral information [ 25 ].…”

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The Impact of Interpreting Training Experience on the Attentional Networks and Their Dynamics

Xing,

Yang

2023

Brain Sciences

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Interpreting, a complicated and demanding bilingual task, depends heavily on attentional control. However, few studies have focused on the interpreters’ advantages in attention, and the findings so far have been inconsistent. Meanwhile, the connection between attentional networks and other cognitive abilities, such as working memory (WM), has rarely been explored in interpreters. The present study investigated whether interpreting experience (IE) contributed to the attentional networks of bilinguals and explored the link between interpreters’ attention and WM. Three groups of Chinese–English bilinguals, differing only in their duration of interpreting training (the More-IE group, the Less-IE group, and the No-IE group), completed the Attention Network Test (ANT). Results showed that only the alerting network was more efficient in the More-IE group than in the Less-IE and No-IE groups; moreover, the dynamics between the alerting and executive networks were significant only in the More-IE group. Furthermore, we found a negative correlation between the executive effect and the working memory capacity (WMC) in the More-IE group. Our study validated and provided empirical support for the Attentional Control Model, stimulating further research into neurocognitive mechanisms of advanced second language learning.

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