The Impact of Bilingual Environments on Selective Attention in Infancy

Autor/inn/en	Comishen, Kyle J.; Bialystok, Ellen; Adler, Scott A.
Titel	The Impact of Bilingual Environments on Selective Attention in Infancy
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 22 (2019) 4, (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Comishen, Kyle J.) ORCID (Adler, Scott A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.12797
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Infants; Monolingualism; Eye Movements; Cues; Visual Stimuli; Expectation; Cognitive Processes; Attention Control; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Augenbewegung; Stichwort; Expectancy; Erwartung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	Bilingualism has been observed to influence cognitive processing across the lifespan but whether bilingual environments have an effect on selective attention and attention strategies in infancy remains an unresolved question. In Study 1, infants exposed to monolingual or bilingual environments participated in an eye-tracking cueing task in which they saw centrally presented stimuli followed by a target appearing on either the left or right side of the screen. Halfway through the trials, the central stimuli reliably predicted targets' locations. In Study 2, the first half of the trials consisted of centrally presented cues that predicted targets' locations; in the second half, the cue--target location relation switched. All infants performed similarly in Study 1, but in Study 2 infants raised in bilingual, but not monolingual, environments were able to successfully update their expectations by making more correct anticipatory eye movements to the target and expressing faster reactive eye latencies toward the target in the post-switch condition. The experience of attending to a complex environment in which infants simultaneously process and contrast two languages may account for why infants raised in bilingual environments have greater attentional control than those raised in monolingual environments. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01