A Working Memory, Not Bilingual Advantage, in Controlled Attention

Autor/inn/en	Namazi, Mahchid; Thordardottir, Elin
Titel	A Working Memory, Not Bilingual Advantage, in Controlled Attention
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 13 (2010) 5, S.597-616 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Tests; Short Term Memory; Monolingualism; Bilingualism; Children; Visual Stimuli; Measures (Individuals); Foreign Countries; Scores; Task Analysis; Correlation; English; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Bilingualismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Messdaten; Ausland; Aufgabenanalyse; Korrelation; English language; Englisch; Frankreich
Abstract	We explored the relationship between working memory (WM) and visually controlled attention (CA) in young bilingual and monolingual children. Previous research has shown that balanced bilingual children outperform monolinguals in CA. However, it is unclear whether this advantage is truly associated with bilingualism or whether potential WM and/or language differences led to the observed effects. Therefore, we examined whether bilingual and monolingual children differ on a visual measure of CA after potential differences in verbal and visual WM had been accounted for. We also looked at the relationship between visually CA and visual WM. Fifteen French monolingual children, 15 English monolingual children, and 15 early simultaneous bilingual children completed verbal short-term memory, verbal WM, visual WM, and visual CA tasks. Detailed information regarding language exposure was collected and abilities in each language were evaluated. A bilingual advantage was not found; that is, monolingual and bilingual children were equally successful in ignoring the irrelevant perceptual distraction on the Simon Task. However, children with better visual WM scores were also more faster and more accurate on the Simon Task. Furthermore, visual WM correlated significantly with the visual CA task. (Contains 2 tables and 7 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10