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Task-Switching In Bilinguals: Further Investigation Of The Bilingual Advantage, Jennifer M. Brown
Task-Switching In Bilinguals: Further Investigation Of The Bilingual Advantage, Jennifer M. Brown
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Recent research has suggested that speaking more than one language may lead to benefits across a variety of different cognitive tasks (Bialystok, Craik, Green, & Gollan, 2009). This effect has been dubbed the Bilingual Advantage. It has been suggested that this advantage relates to more the development of greater efficiency with processes involved in task-switching. The current study used a task-switching task to investigate three of these processes: reconfiguration, monitoring, and inhibitory control processes.
Monolingual and bilingual participants were presented blocks of trials in which they had to either categorize words as either abstract or concrete, or pictures as human-made …