Teasing apart factors influencing executive function performance in bilinguals and monolinguals at different ages: Teasing apart factors

Virginia Gathercole, Enlli Thomas, Nestor Vinas-Guasch, Ivan Kennedy, Cynog Prys, Nia Young, Emily Roberts, Emma Hughes-Parry, Leah Jones

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Abstract

This study attempts to tease apart a variety of factors that may contribute to performance on executive function tasks. Data from the Simon task are re-examined to determine the contributions of age, SES, language proficiency/vocabulary, general cognitive performance, and bilingualism on performance. The results suggest influence from a variety of factors, with major contributions from relative age and from language proficiency, as measured by vocabulary. Bilingualism showed some effect in relation to older adults' accuracy of performance, in both congruent and incongruent conditions, but not to reaction time.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights
EditorsIrina Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin, Virginia Valian
Place of PublicationAmsterdam/Philadelphia
PublisherJohn Benjamins
Chapter19
Pages295-336
Number of pages42
Volume57
ISBN (Print)9789027202420
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameStudies in Bilingualism
PublisherJohn Benjamins
Volume57
ISSN (Print)0928-1533

Keywords

  • bilingualism
  • Executive Function
  • cognitive control
  • cognitive development
  • minority langauge
  • Welsh

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