On the bilingual advantage in conflict processing: Now you see it, now you don’t

Costa, Albert; Hernández, Mireia; Costa‐Faidella, Jordi; Sebastián‐Gallés, Núria

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.08.001

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“…For example, a bilingual advantage may only arise when the task requires some degree of conflict resolution or switching between tasks (e.g., Costa, Hernández, Costa-Faidella, & Sebastián-Gallés, 2009;Hilchey & Klein, 2011;Prior & Macwhinney, 2009). Bilingual advantages in conflict resolution and task switching would be consistent with both the Inhibitory Control Model and the Adaptive Control Hypothesis, which BILINGUAL WORKING MEMORY 18 assume that bilinguals use these processes for language control (Green, 1998;Green & Abutalebi, 2013).…”

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Working Memory Capacity: Is There a Bilingual Advantage?

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“…In addition, we will examine how evidence for structural changes may contribute to this debate on the 'advantages' and 'disadvantages' of bilingualism at the behavioural level (Abutalebi & Green, 2007;Antón et al, 2014;Bialystok & Barac, 2012;Costa et al, 2009;Costa et al, 2008;Duñabeitia et al, 2014;Gathercole et al, 2014;Gollan et al, 2011;Kroll & Bialystok, 2013;Martin et al, 2012;Paap & Greenberg, 2013;. In this sense, we will highlight how neuroimaging data could contribute to the debate by adding empirical evidence from a different perspective.…”

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“…We note, however, that in this article we leave aside other potential differences that may emerge as a function of the knowledge and/or use of more than a single language, given that it is not the primary focus of this review. There is much evidence demonstrating that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in executive control tasks (see Abutalebi & Green, 2007;Bialystok, Craik, & Luk, 2012 for a review; see also Bialystok & Barac, 2012;Costa, Hernández, Costa-Faidella, & Sebastián-Gallés, 2009;Costa, Hernández, & Sebastián-Gallés, 2008). At a broad level, the underlying hypothesis for the so-called 'bilingual advantage' in executive functions is that bilinguals are used to constantly dealing with different languages and to preventing mutual interference between languages by selecting the target language while inhibiting the non-target language(s).…”

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The neuroanatomy of bilingualism: how to turn a hazy view into the full picture

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Costello

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Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Abstract:The neuroanatomical bases of bilingualism have recently received intensive attention.However, it is still a matter of debate how the brain structure changes due to bilingual experience since current findings are highly variable. The aim of this review is to examine these structural studies from a methodological perspective and to discuss two major methodological problems that could give rise to this variability. The first problem is sample selection, an issue directly related to the heterogeneous nature of bilingualism. The second problem is the inconsistency in the methods used for the analysis of brain imaging data. This review reveals that although structural changes related to bilingualism have been reported in regions comprising language/cognitive control and language processing, these results are not yet sufficiently numerous or consistent to allow important generalizations to be reached. Consequently, current evidence offers ambiguous support for neural models of bilingualism. This shortcoming in the field is exacerbated by critical methodological differences between studies that only further complicate the matter. We conclude by identifying issues that should be taken into consideration so that studies are more comparable and results are easier to aggregate and interpret. We also point out future directions that would allow for progress in the field.

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“…There is ongoing debate about whether language selection takes place via a process of inhibition (e.g. Abutalebi and Green, 2007;Green, 1998;Prior;Van Heuven et al, 2008), by the maintenance of goals and self-monitoring (Colzato et al, 2008;Costa et al, 2009) or a combination of these (Bialystok et al, 2012;Green and Abutalebi, 2013). Similarly, the neural bases of bilingual language control are not yet fully elucidated.…”

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Brain functional plasticity associated with the emergence of expertise in extreme language control

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We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to longitudinally examine brain plasticity arising from long-term, intensive simultaneous interpretation training. Simultaneous interpretation is a bilingual task with heavy executive control demands. We compared brain responses observed during simultaneous interpretation with those observed during simultaneous speech repetition (shadowing) in a group of trainee simultaneous interpreters, at the beginning and at the end of their professional training program. Age, sex and languageproficiency matched controls were scanned at similar intervals. Using multivariate pattern classification, we found distributed patterns of changes in functional responses from the first to second scan that distinguished the interpreters from the controls. We also found reduced recruitment of the right caudate nucleus during simultaneous interpretation as a result of training. Such practice-related change is consistent with decreased demands on multilingual language control as the task becomes more automatized with practice. These results demonstrate the impact of simultaneous interpretation training on the brain functional response in a cerebral structure that is not specifically linguistic, but that is known to be involved in learning, in motor control, and in a variety of domain-general executive functions. Along with results of recent studies showing functional and structural adaptations in the caudate nuclei of experts in a broad range of domains, our results underline the importance of this structure as a central node in expertise-related networks.

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On the bilingual advantage in conflict processing: Now you see it, now you don’t

Cited by 721 publications

References 26 publications

Working Memory Capacity: Is There a Bilingual Advantage?

Working Memory Capacity: Is There a Bilingual Advantage?

The neuroanatomy of bilingualism: how to turn a hazy view into the full picture

Brain functional plasticity associated with the emergence of expertise in extreme language control

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