Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse.

ABSTRACT: One of the most contentious topics in cognitive science concerns the impact of bilingualism on cognitive functions and neural resources. Research on executive functions has shown that bilinguals often perform better than monolinguals in tasks that require monitoring and inhibiting automatic responses. The robustness of this effect is a matter of an ongoing debate, with both sides approaching bilingual cognition mainly through measuring abilities that fall outside the core domain of language processing. However, the mental juggling that bilinguals perform daily involves language. This study takes a novel path to bilingual cognition by comparing the performance of monolinguals and bilinguals in a timed task that features a special category of stimulus, which has the peculiar ability to manip

SUBMITTER: Leivada E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8423309 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature