Cognitive Control Facilitates Attentional Disengagement during Second Language Comprehension.

ABSTRACT: Bilinguals learn to resolve conflict between their two languages and that skill has been hypothesized to create long-term adaptive changes in cognitive functioning. Yet, little is known about how bilinguals recruit cognitive control to enable efficient use of one of their languages, especially in the less skilled and more effortful second language (L2). Here we examined how real-time cognitive control engagement influences L2 sentence comprehension (i.e., conflict adaptation). We tested a group of English monolinguals and a group of L2 English speakers using a recently-developed cross-task adaptation paradigm. Stroop sequences were pseudo-randomly interleaved with a visual-world paradigm in which participants were asked to carry out spoken instructions that were either syntactically ambigu

SUBMITTER: Navarro-Torres CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6562798 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature