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

VL - 6

SP - 605

EP - 647

JO - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

JF - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

SN - 1879-9264

IS - 5

ER -