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Multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity
The once widely held notion that bilingualism is related to enhanced cognitive functions has recently been challenged, in particular among young adults, as opposed to children and older adults. This strand of research, however, is essentially focused on executive functions (e.g., attention, inhibiti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10666761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022947 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1155158 |
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description | The once widely held notion that bilingualism is related to enhanced cognitive functions has recently been challenged, in particular among young adults, as opposed to children and older adults. This strand of research, however, is essentially focused on executive functions (e.g., attention, inhibition, and shifting). But there is another side to the bilingualism-cognition story. Indeed, growing evidence has shown that bilingualism, and by extension multilingualism, are associated with enhanced creativity. However, this relation is arguably quite complex, for several reasons. First, creativity is a fuzzy notion; it is usually conceptualized as a mix of cognitive, personality and motivational factors. Second, multilingual people generally have a richer multicultural experience than monolingual people. In addition, multicultural experience itself is also positively related to creativity. Hence, there are manifold relations between cognition, creativity, multilingualism, and multicultural experience. In this brief research report, using a latent variables model which replicates some of our recent findings, we show that both multilingualism and multicultural experience are positively associated with creativity, even when controlling for cognitive abilities (divergent thinking and intelligence). We discuss these results in a perspective that considers methodological challenges and factors that are relevant to goal-directed behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-106667612023-11-09 Multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity Fürst, Guillaume Grin, François Front Psychol Psychology The once widely held notion that bilingualism is related to enhanced cognitive functions has recently been challenged, in particular among young adults, as opposed to children and older adults. This strand of research, however, is essentially focused on executive functions (e.g., attention, inhibition, and shifting). But there is another side to the bilingualism-cognition story. Indeed, growing evidence has shown that bilingualism, and by extension multilingualism, are associated with enhanced creativity. However, this relation is arguably quite complex, for several reasons. First, creativity is a fuzzy notion; it is usually conceptualized as a mix of cognitive, personality and motivational factors. Second, multilingual people generally have a richer multicultural experience than monolingual people. In addition, multicultural experience itself is also positively related to creativity. Hence, there are manifold relations between cognition, creativity, multilingualism, and multicultural experience. In this brief research report, using a latent variables model which replicates some of our recent findings, we show that both multilingualism and multicultural experience are positively associated with creativity, even when controlling for cognitive abilities (divergent thinking and intelligence). We discuss these results in a perspective that considers methodological challenges and factors that are relevant to goal-directed behavior. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10666761/ /pubmed/38022947 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1155158 Text en Copyright © 2023 Fürst and Grin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Fürst, Guillaume Grin, François Multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity |
title | Multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity |
title_full | Multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity |
title_fullStr | Multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity |
title_full_unstemmed | Multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity |
title_short | Multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity |
title_sort | multilingualism, multicultural experience, cognition, and creativity |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10666761/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38022947 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1155158 |
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