Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More Challenges
A large sample (N = 141) of college students participated in both a conjunctive visual search task and an ambiguous figures task that have been used as tests of selective attention. Tests for effects of bilingualism on attentional control were conducted by both partitioning the participants into bil...
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doaj-d2281bf835364fb29994d5e2f11f65c32020-11-24T21:22:19ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-08-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.01409409482Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More ChallengesKenneth R. PaapRegina Anders-JeffersonLauren MasonKaterinne AlvaradoBrandon ZimigaA large sample (N = 141) of college students participated in both a conjunctive visual search task and an ambiguous figures task that have been used as tests of selective attention. Tests for effects of bilingualism on attentional control were conducted by both partitioning the participants into bilinguals and monolinguals and by treating bilingualism as a continuous variable, but there were no effects of bilingualism in any of the tests. Bayes factor analyses confirmed that the evidence substantially favored the null hypothesis. These new findings mesh with failures to replicate language-group differences in congruency-sequence effects, inhibition-of-return, and working memory capacity. The evidence that bilinguals are better than monolinguals at attentional control is equivocal at best.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01409/fullbilingualisminhibitory controlselective attentionvisual searchambiguous figures |
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Kenneth R. Paap Regina Anders-Jefferson Lauren Mason Katerinne Alvarado Brandon Zimiga Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More Challenges Frontiers in Psychology bilingualism inhibitory control selective attention visual search ambiguous figures |
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Kenneth R. Paap Regina Anders-Jefferson Lauren Mason Katerinne Alvarado Brandon Zimiga |
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Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More Challenges |
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Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More Challenges |
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Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More Challenges |
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Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More Challenges |
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Bilingual Advantages in Inhibition or Selective Attention: More Challenges |
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bilingual advantages in inhibition or selective attention: more challenges |
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Frontiers Media S.A. |
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Frontiers in Psychology |
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1664-1078 |
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2018-08-01 |
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A large sample (N = 141) of college students participated in both a conjunctive visual search task and an ambiguous figures task that have been used as tests of selective attention. Tests for effects of bilingualism on attentional control were conducted by both partitioning the participants into bilinguals and monolinguals and by treating bilingualism as a continuous variable, but there were no effects of bilingualism in any of the tests. Bayes factor analyses confirmed that the evidence substantially favored the null hypothesis. These new findings mesh with failures to replicate language-group differences in congruency-sequence effects, inhibition-of-return, and working memory capacity. The evidence that bilinguals are better than monolinguals at attentional control is equivocal at best. |
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bilingualism inhibitory control selective attention visual search ambiguous figures |
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https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01409/full |
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