The impact of bilingualism on the executive control and orienting networks of attention

By Mireia Hernández, Albert Costa, L. Fuentes, A. Vivas, Núria Sebastián-Gallés. 2010

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The main objective of this article is to provide new evidence regarding the impact of bilingualism on the attentional system. We approach this goal by assessing the effects of bilingualism on the executive and orienting networks of attention. In Experiment 1, we compared young bilingual and monolingual adults in a numerical version of the Stroop task, which allowed the assessment of the executive control network. We observed more efficient performance in the former group, which showed both reduced Stroop Interference and larger Stroop Facilitation Effects relative to the latter. Conversely, Experiment 2, conducted with a visual cueing task in order to assess the orienting network, revealed similar Cueing Facilitation and Inhibition (Inhibition of Return – IOR) Effects for both groups of speakers. The implications of the results of these two experiments for the origin and boundaries of the bilingual impact on the attentional system are discussed.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Bilingual Minds (2009, background): “As we have seen earlier, bilinguals generally suffer less Stroop interference and greater Stroop facilitation than monolinguals do (Bialystok et al., 2008a; Hernández et al., 2010).”
Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes (2011, background): “Thus, it is difficult to discern what greater IOR for bilinguals as compared to monolinguals (Colzato et al., 2008; but see Hernández et al., 2010, for a nonreplication) might mean.”
Bilingualism and working memory capacity: A comprehensive meta-analysis (2017, background): “From this perspective as well, bilinguals should have greater WM capacity than monolinguals because numerous studies have shown that bilinguals are better at controlling attention (Bialystok, 1999; Bialystok et al., 2004; Costa et al., 2008; Hernandez et al., 2010; Soveri et al., 2011).”
Bridging language and attention: Brain basis of the impact of bilingualism on cognitive control (2010, background): “…to establish the appropriate response set to each stimulus, a strategy that would facilitate performance in conflict tasks (Bialystok and Martin, 2004; Bialystok and Viswanathan, 2009; Carlson and Meltzoff, 2008; Costa et al., 2008, 2009; Hernández et al., 2010; Martin-Rhee and Bialystok, 2008).”
Where is the bilingual advantage in task-switching? (2013, background): “tory processes (e.g. Stroop task, flanker task; Bialystok et al., 2006b; Costa et al., 2008, 2009; Hernández et al., 2010; Hernández et al., 2012).”