Bidirectional interaction between language control and domain-general executive control in unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals
| Autor: | Huang Xin, Lu Aitao, Deng Ruchen, Tang Ying, Zeng Jiayi, Zhu Wenfang, Li Kexin, Li Fen, Hua Mingyu, Xiong Wen |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Serbian |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Psihologija, Vol 57, Iss 1, Pp 73-92 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0048-5705 1451-9283 |
| DOI: | 10.2298/PSI210121029H |
| Popis: | Recent research has shown that bilinguals outperform monolinguals on tasks requiring non-linguistic executive control skills, thereby generating an interest in the relationship between bilingual language processing and non-linguistic control abilities. Based on this, the present study further examined the bidirectional interaction between language control and non-linguistic control in unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals. These bilinguals completed a Flanker task in three types of language control contexts (i.e., L1, L2, and Mixed language contexts) in the interleaved word-comprehension-to-Flanker sequence and performed a picture-word matching task in three types of non-linguistic executive control contexts (i.e., color, shape and color-shape mixed contexts) in the interleaved color-shape-switching-to-word-comprehension sequence. The results showed that the Flanker effect in mixed language context was smaller than in single (L1 and L2) context, suggesting language control leads to a better non-linguistic control ability. Additionally, the language switching cost was found smaller in the mixed task context (color/shape switching), indicating that non-linguistic control can enhance the language control ability. Therefore, we conclude that there is a bidirectional interaction between language control and non-linguistic control even in unbalanced bilinguals. |
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