TY - JOUR
T1 - Teasing apart factors influencing Executive Function performance in bilinguals and monolinguals at different ages
AU - Gathercole, Virginia C. Mueller
AU - Thomas, E.M.
AU - Viñas Guasch, Nestor
AU - Kennedy, Ivan
AU - Prys, C.
AU - Young, N.E.
AU - Roberts, Emily J.
AU - Hughes, E.K.
AU - Jones, Leah
N1 - It is under copyright and the publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - This study attempts to tease apart a variety of factors that may contribute to performance on executive function tasks. Data from the Simon task is 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 a major contribution 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.
AB - This study attempts to tease apart a variety of factors that may contribute to performance on executive function tasks. Data from the Simon task is 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 a major contribution 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.
U2 - 10.1075/lab.15051.gat
DO - 10.1075/lab.15051.gat
M3 - Article
SN - 1879-9264
VL - 6
SP - 605
EP - 647
JO - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
JF - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
IS - 5
ER -