Bilingualism Alters the Neural Correlates of Sustained Attention.

ABSTRACT: The present study examined whether monolingual and bilingual language experience -- including first and second language proficiency, exposure, and age of acquisition -- modify the neural mechanisms of attention during nonverbal sound discrimination. English monolinguals and Korean-English bilinguals performed an auditory two-stimulus oddball task while their EEG was recorded. Participants heard a series of two different tones (high pitch tone versus low pitch tone), one of which occurred less frequently (deviant trials) than the other (standard trials), and were asked to mentally count the number of infrequent tones. We found that in the early time window, bilinguals had larger amplitudes than monolinguals in response to both standard and deviant trials, suggesting that bilinguals initiall

SUBMITTER: Chung-Fat-Yim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10836257 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature