Does Bilingualism Enhance Mental Flexibility or the Disengagement of Attention?

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Cognitive

Regina Anders-Jefferson
San Francisco State University
Lauren Mason
San Francisco State University
Brandon Zimiga
San Francisco State University
Kat Alvarado
San Francisco State University
Lesley Primero
San Francisco State University
Ester Uvaydova
San Francisco State University
Katrina Lao
San Francisco State University
Jennifer Lai
San Francisco State University
Divya Subramanian
San Francisco State University
Kenneth Paap
San Francisco State University

Abstract

Bilingual advantages in inhibition and switching are inconsistent at best. However, recent studies report bilingual advantages in visual search and the ability to detect a change in the identification of a sequence of ambiguous figures. An exact replication using 150 participants (age 13-29) failed to reproduce the advantage.

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Does Bilingualism Enhance Mental Flexibility or the Disengagement of Attention?

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