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Bilingual effects on deployment of the attention system in linguistically and culturally homogeneous children and adults
- Title
- Bilingual effects on deployment of the attention system in linguistically and culturally homogeneous children and adults
- Authors
- Yang, Sujin; Yang, Hwajin
- Ewha Authors
- 양수진
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 양수진
- Issue Date
- 2016
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
- ISSN
- 0022-0965
1096-0457
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY vol. 146, pp. 121 - 136
- Keywords
- Bilingual advantages; Attention system; Attention Network Test; Global-local processing efficiency; Alerting; Orienting; Executive control
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Indexed
- SSCI; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- We investigated the impact of early childhood and adulthood bilingualism on the attention system in a group of linguistically and culturally homogeneous children (5- and 6-year olds) and young adults. We administered the child Attention Network Test (ANT) to 63 English monolingual and Korean-English bilingual children and administered the adult ANT to 39 language- and culture matched college students. Advantageous bilingual effects on attention were observed for both children and adults in global processing levels of inverse efficiency,, response time, and accuracy at a magnitude more pronounced for children than for adults. Differential bilingualism effects were evident at the local network level of executive control and orienting in favor of the adult bilinguals only. Notably, however, bilingual children achieved an adult level of accuracy in the incongruent flanker condition, implying enhanced attentional skills to cope with interferences. Our findings suggest that although both child and adult bilinguals share cognitive advantages in attentional functioning, age-related cognitive and linguistic maturation differentially shapes the outcomes of attentional processing at a local network level. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved,
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.01.011
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- 사회과학대학 > 심리학전공 > Journal papers
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