The effects of bilingualism on conflict monitoring, cognitive control, and garden-path recovery

Teubner‐Rhodes, Susan; Mishler, Alan; Corbett, Ryan; Andreu, Llorenç; Sanz‐Torrent, Mònica; Trueswell, John C.; Novick, Jared M.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.02.011

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“…Based on previous studies examining such links at other linguistic levels (e.g., Blumenfeld & Marian, 2011; 2013; Mercier et al, 2014; Teubner-Rhodes et al, 2016), we predicted that more efficient performance on the Stroop task would be related to decreased competition from the ‘e’ phonotactic constraint for bilinguals. In the bilingual group, a significant positive correlation was observed between the Stroop effect and the CPCF effect ( r = .45, p = .039).…”

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“…The involvement of inhibitory control skills during bilingual language processing has been documented across various tasks indexing phonological (Blumenfeld & Marian, 2011, 2013; Blumenfeld, Schroeder, Bobb, Freeman, & Marian, 2016; Mercier, Pivneva, & Titone, 2014), lexical (Linck, Hoshino, & Kroll, 2008; Linck, Schwieter, & Sunderman, 2012; Prior & Gollan, 2011), semantic (Martín, Macizo, & Bajo, 2010), and syntactic co-activation (Linck, Hoshino, & Kroll, 2008; Teubner-Rhodes et al, 2016; see Freeman, Shook, & Marian, 2016, for review). In the current study, we seek to examine the relation between cognitive control and cross-linguistic competition resolution (i.e., how individuals manage and suppress interfering cues while focusing on relevant information) at the sublexical level.…”

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Cross-linguistic phonotactic competition and cognitive control in bilinguals

Freeman

Blumenfeld

Marian

2017

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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The current study examines the relation between cognitive control and linguistic competition resolution at the sublexical level in bilinguals. Twenty-one Spanish-English bilinguals and 23 English monolinguals completed a non-linguistic Stroop task (indexing inhibitory control) and a linguistic priming/lexical decision task (indexing Spanish phonotactic constraint competition during English comprehension). More efficient Stroop performance (i.e., a smaller Stroop effect) in bilinguals was associated with decreased competition from Spanish phonotactic constraints during English comprehension. This relation was observed when nonword targets overlapped in phonotactic constraints and phonological form with preceding cognate primes (e.g., prime: stable (Spanish: estable)/target: esteriors). Findings suggest a link between non-linguistic cognitive control and co-activation of linguistic structures at the sublexical level in bilinguals.

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Cross-linguistic phonotactic competition and cognitive control in bilinguals

Freeman

Blumenfeld

Marian

2017

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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“…Accordingly, recent studies suggest that sentence processing, and in particular garden-path recovery, can be improved by training nonlinguistic conflict resolution (see Novick, Hussey, Teubner-Rhodes, Harbison & Bunting 2013). Crucially, Teubner-Rhodes, Mishler, Corbett, Andreu, Sanz-Torrent, Trueswell and Novick (2016) show that bilingual participants are more accurate than monolinguals in non-linguistic conflict resolution tasks and in sentence comprehension, both before and after training. These studies suggest that the relationship between general cognition and language is a complex one and that the processes involved in the two do share some common characteristics.…”

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Exploring the role of cognitive control in syntactic processing

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Sorace

Westergaard

2018

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4In this paper, we explore the role of cognition in bilingual syntactic processing by employing a structural priming paradigm. A group of Norwegian-English bilingual children and an age-matched group of Norwegian monolingual children were tested in a priming task that included both a within-language and a between-language priming condition. Results show that the priming effect between-language was not significantly smaller than the effect within-language. We argue that this is because language control mechanisms do not affect the access to the shared grammar. In addition, we investigate the interaction between the children's performance in the priming task and in a nonlinguistic cognitive task and find that the two measures are not correlated; however, we find a correlation between the cognitive task and language control, which we measured by counting the number of trials produced in the non-target language. Our findings suggest that language control and domain-general executive control overlap only partially.

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“…Morales and colleagues (Morales, Gomez-Ariza, & Bajo, 2013; Morales, Yudes, Gomez-Ariza, & Bajo, 2015) reported better performance by bilinguals than monolinguals on this task and argued that the bilinguals had greater capacity to monitor these components of executive function. Finally, as part of a larger study of conflict monitoring in sentence processing, Teubner-Rhodes et al (2016) demonstrated better performance by bilinguals than monolinguals on a nonverbal N-back task that they describe as requiring conflict monitoring.…”

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The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.

Bialystok

2017

Psychological Bulletin

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According to some estimates, more than half of the world’s population is multilingual to some extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep connections between linguistic and nonlinguistic processing, it would not be surprising to find that there are interactions between bilingualism and cognitive and brain processes. The present review uses the framework of experience-dependent plasticity to evaluate the evidence for systematic modifications of brain and cognitive systems that can be attributed to bilingualism. The review describes studies investigating the relation between bilingualism and cognition in infants and children, younger and older adults, and patients, using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Excluded are studies whose outcomes focus primarily on linguistic abilities because of their more peripheral contribution to the central question regarding experience-dependent changes to cognition. Although most of the research discussed in the review reports some relation between bilingualism and cognitive or brain outcomes, several areas of research, notably behavioral studies with young adults, largely fail to show these effects. These discrepancies are discussed and considered in terms of methodological and conceptual issues. The final section proposes an account based on “executive attention” to explain the range of research findings and to set out an agenda for the next steps in this field.

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The effects of bilingualism on conflict monitoring, cognitive control, and garden-path recovery

Cited by 71 publications

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Cross-linguistic phonotactic competition and cognitive control in bilinguals

Cross-linguistic phonotactic competition and cognitive control in bilinguals

Exploring the role of cognitive control in syntactic processing

The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.

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