| Autor: |
Chung-Fat-Yim A; a Department of Psychology , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada., Sorge GB; b York Catholic District School Board , Aurora , ON , Canada., Bialystok E; a Department of Psychology , York University , Toronto , ON , Canada. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) [Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)] 2017 Mar; Vol. 70 (3), pp. 366-372. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Aug 30. |
| DOI: |
10.1080/17470218.2016.1221435 |
| Abstrakt: |
Previous research has shown that bilinguals outperform monolinguals on a variety of tasks that have been described as involving executive functioning, but the precise mechanism for those effects or a clear definition for "executive function" is unknown. This uncertainty has led to a number of studies for which no performance difference between monolingual and bilingual adults has been detected. One approach to clarifying these issues comes from research with children showing that bilinguals were more able than their monolingual peers to perceive both interpretations of an ambiguous figure, an ability that is more tied to a conception of selective attention than to specific components of executive function. The present study extends this notion to adults by assessing their ability to see the alternative image in an ambiguous figure. Bilinguals performed this task more efficiently than monolinguals by requiring fewer cues to identify the second image. This finding has implications for the role of selective attention in performance differences between monolinguals and bilinguals. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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