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Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence
Experimental data supporting the claim that bilingual speakers have superior cognitive control abilities are often questioned with respect to certain methodological limitations. One such limitation is the use of between-group design, potentially confounding bilingual status with other factors (e.g.,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6934129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31920860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02825 |
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author | Novitskiy, Nikolay Shtyrov, Yury Myachykov, Andriy |
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description | Experimental data supporting the claim that bilingual speakers have superior cognitive control abilities are often questioned with respect to certain methodological limitations. One such limitation is the use of between-group design, potentially confounding bilingual status with other factors (e.g., socioeconomic status). Here, we used a homogeneous sample of 57 young adult Russian–English late unbalanced bilinguals who were administrated Attention Network Task (ANT) together with an L2 proficiency task. We tested the correlation of L2 vocabulary performance with conflict and alertness measures and overall reaction times in ANT performance. Overall, participants demonstrated better conflict resolution with the increase in their second language competence, with 8% of variance in conflict resolution explained by L2 proficiency. Our results support the notion of regular correspondence between bilingualism and cognitive control. |
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spelling | pubmed-69341292020-01-09 Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence Novitskiy, Nikolay Shtyrov, Yury Myachykov, Andriy Front Psychol Psychology Experimental data supporting the claim that bilingual speakers have superior cognitive control abilities are often questioned with respect to certain methodological limitations. One such limitation is the use of between-group design, potentially confounding bilingual status with other factors (e.g., socioeconomic status). Here, we used a homogeneous sample of 57 young adult Russian–English late unbalanced bilinguals who were administrated Attention Network Task (ANT) together with an L2 proficiency task. We tested the correlation of L2 vocabulary performance with conflict and alertness measures and overall reaction times in ANT performance. Overall, participants demonstrated better conflict resolution with the increase in their second language competence, with 8% of variance in conflict resolution explained by L2 proficiency. Our results support the notion of regular correspondence between bilingualism and cognitive control. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6934129/ /pubmed/31920860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02825 Text en Copyright © 2019 Novitskiy, Shtyrov and Myachykov. 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) 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 Novitskiy, Nikolay Shtyrov, Yury Myachykov, Andriy Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence |
title | Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence |
title_full | Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence |
title_fullStr | Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence |
title_full_unstemmed | Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence |
title_short | Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence |
title_sort | conflict resolution ability in late bilinguals improves with increased second-language proficiency: ant evidence |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6934129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31920860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02825 |
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