Language Entropy Relates to Behavioral and Pupil Indices of Executive Control in Young Adult Bilinguals.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

It has been proposed that bilinguals' language use patterns are differentially associated with executive control. To further examine this, the present study relates the social diversity of bilingual language use to performance on a color-shape switching task (CSST) in a group of bilingual university students with diverse linguistic backgrounds. Crucially, this study used language entropy as a measure of bilinguals' language use patterns. This continuous measure reflects a spectrum of language use in a variety of social contexts, ranging from compartmentalized use to fully integrated use.

Methods

Language entropy for university and non-university contexts was calculated from questionnaire data on language use. Reaction times (RTs) were measured to calculate globa

SUBMITTER: van den Berg F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9116486 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature