Bilingualism can cause enhanced monitoring and occasional delayed responses in a flanker task.

ABSTRACT: Complex cognitive tasks require different stages of processing (i.e. conflict monitoring, attentional resource allocation and stimulus categorisation). Performance differences between bilinguals and monolinguals on conflict tasks can be affected by the balance of these sub-processes. The current study investigated the effect of bilingualism on these sub-processes during a conflict task with medium monitoring demand. Behavioural responses and evoked potentials from bilinguals and monolinguals were examined during a flanker task with 25% incongruent trials. Behavioural differences were analysed by means of averaged response times and exponentially modified Gaussian analyses of response time distributions. For evoked potentials, the study focussed on N2 (reflecting conflict monitoring) and P3

SUBMITTER: Markiewicz R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100525 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature