On the Connection Between Language Control and Executive Control-An ERP Study.

ABSTRACT: Models vary in the extent to which language control processes are domain general. Those that posit that language control is at least partially domain general insist on an overlap between language control and executive control at the goal level. To further probe whether or not language control is domain general, we conducted the first event-related potential (ERP) study that directly compares language-switch costs, as an index of language control, and task-switch costs, as an index of executive control. The language switching and task switching methodologies were identical, except that the former required switching between languages (English or Spanish) whereas the latter required switching between tasks (color naming or category naming). This design allowed us to directly compare control p

SUBMITTER: Declerck M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10158610 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature