Bilingual effects on deployment of the attention system in linguistically and culturally homogeneous children and adults
- 주제(키워드) Alerting , Attention Network Test , Attention system , Bilingual advantages , Executive control , Global-local processing efficiency , Orienting
- 등재 SSCI, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 Academic Press Inc.
- 발행년도 2016
- 총서유형 Journal
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000125467
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.01.011
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초록/요약
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. © 2016 Elsevier Inc.
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