Effect of bilingualism on visual tracking attention and resistance to distraction
| Autor: | Josée Rivest, Ana Janic, Patrick Cavanagh |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male 0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Eye Movements First language lcsh:Medicine Multilingualism Audiology Article Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Nonverbal communication 0302 clinical medicine Distraction Human behaviour medicine Humans Attention lcsh:Science Eye Movement Measurements Neuroscience of multilingualism Multidisciplinary lcsh:R Cognition 030104 developmental biology Video tracking Eye tracking Female lcsh:Q Tracking (education) Visual system Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020) Scientific Reports |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | Speaking more than one language has been associated with enhanced cognitive capacities. Here we evaluated whether bilingual individuals have advantages in visual tracking attention. Adult bilingual (n = 35) and monolingual (n = 35) participants were tested in the Multiple Object Tracking task (MOT). In one condition, the MOT was performed by itself establishing the baseline performance of each group, and in the other condition, it was performed while participants counted backward out loud in their mother tongue. At baseline, the average speed tracking threshold of bilinguals was not better than that of the monolinguals. Importantly, for bilinguals, counting backward decreased their threshold by only 15%, but, for monolinguals, it decreased it three times as much. This result suggests that bilingualism confers advantages to visual tracking attention when dual tasking is required, extending the evidence that bilingualism affords cognitive benefits beyond verbal communication. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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