Coordination of Executive Functions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children

Autor/in	Bialystok, Ellen
Titel	Coordination of Executive Functions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110 (2011) 3, S.461-468 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2011.05.005
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Short Term Memory; Monolingualism; Bilingualism; Children; Classification; Task Analysis; Visual Stimuli; Auditory Stimuli; Cognitive Processes; Inhibition; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Bilingualismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Aufgabenanalyse; Auditive Stimulation; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Hemmung
Abstract	Two groups of 8-year-old children who were monolingual or bilingual completed a complex classification task in which they made semantic judgments on stimuli that were presented either visually or auditorily. The task requires coordinating a variety of executive control components, specifically working memory, inhibition, and shifting. When each of the visual and auditory tasks was presented alone, performance was comparable for children in the two groups. Combining the two modalities into a dual-task paradigm made the task more difficult, and on this combined task bilingual children maintained better accuracy than monolingual children, especially on the visual task. The results are interpreted in terms of the enhanced ability of bilingual children to coordinate the executive control components required in performing this complex task. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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