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The relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds
The present study examined whether linguistic cognitive control skills were related to non-linguistic cognitive control skills in monolingual children (Study 1) and in bilingual children from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds (Study 2). Linguistic inhibitory control was measured using a gr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25309499 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01098 |
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author | Buac, Milijana Kaushanskaya, Margarita |
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description | The present study examined whether linguistic cognitive control skills were related to non-linguistic cognitive control skills in monolingual children (Study 1) and in bilingual children from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds (Study 2). Linguistic inhibitory control was measured using a grammaticality judgment (GJ) task in which children judged the grammaticality of sentences while ignoring their meaning. Non-linguistic inhibitory control was measured using a flanker task. Study 1, in which we tested monolingual English-speaking children, revealed that better inhibitory control skills, as indexed by the performance on the flanker task, were associated with improved performance on the GJ task. Study 2, in which we tested bilingual English-Spanish speaking children from low SES backgrounds, revealed that better non-linguistic inhibitory control skills did not yield better performance on the GJ task. Together, these findings point to a role of domain-general attention mechanisms in language performance in typically developing monolingual children, but not in bilingual children from low SES. Present results suggest that the relationship between linguistic and domain-general cognitive-control abilities is instantiated differently in bilingual vs. monolingual children, and that language-EF interactions are sensitive to language status and SES. |
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spelling | pubmed-41760812014-10-10 The relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds Buac, Milijana Kaushanskaya, Margarita Front Psychol Psychology The present study examined whether linguistic cognitive control skills were related to non-linguistic cognitive control skills in monolingual children (Study 1) and in bilingual children from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds (Study 2). Linguistic inhibitory control was measured using a grammaticality judgment (GJ) task in which children judged the grammaticality of sentences while ignoring their meaning. Non-linguistic inhibitory control was measured using a flanker task. Study 1, in which we tested monolingual English-speaking children, revealed that better inhibitory control skills, as indexed by the performance on the flanker task, were associated with improved performance on the GJ task. Study 2, in which we tested bilingual English-Spanish speaking children from low SES backgrounds, revealed that better non-linguistic inhibitory control skills did not yield better performance on the GJ task. Together, these findings point to a role of domain-general attention mechanisms in language performance in typically developing monolingual children, but not in bilingual children from low SES. Present results suggest that the relationship between linguistic and domain-general cognitive-control abilities is instantiated differently in bilingual vs. monolingual children, and that language-EF interactions are sensitive to language status and SES. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4176081/ /pubmed/25309499 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01098 Text en Copyright © 2014 Buac and Kaushanskaya. http://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) or licensor 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 Buac, Milijana Kaushanskaya, Margarita The relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds |
title | The relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds |
title_full | The relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds |
title_fullStr | The relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds |
title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds |
title_short | The relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds |
title_sort | relationship between linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive control skills in bilingual children from low socio-economic backgrounds |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176081/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25309499 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01098 |
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