Change is hard: Individual differences in children's lexical processing and executive functions after a shift in dimensions.

ABSTRACT: Language comprehension involves cognitive abilities that are specific to language as well as cognitive abilities that are more general and involved in a wide range of behaviors. One set of domain-general abilities that support language comprehension are executive functions (EFs), also known as cognitive control. A diverse body of research has demonstrated that EFs support language comprehension when there is conflict between competing, incompatible interpretations of temporarily ambiguous words or phrases. By engaging EFs, children and adults are able to select or bias their attention towards the correct interpretation. However, the degree to which language processing engages EFs in the absence of ambiguity is poorly understood. In the current experiment, we tested whether EFs may be engag

SUBMITTER: Pomper R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9122267 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature