{"pk":26000,"title":"Apple, pomme, manzana: Productive vocabulary and cognitive flexibility in\nbilingual preschoolers","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Little is known about how the experience of being bilingual and speaking two languages leads to advantages in\ncognitive control and flexibility (e.g., Bialystok & Martin, 2004). This study investigated productive vocabulary and knowledge\nof translation equivalents (TEs) as possible mechanisms underlying the bilingual advantage in cognitive flexibility and control.\nSpanish-English bilingual two-year-olds performed the Reverse Categorization Task (RCT; Carlson et al., 2004), which requires\ncognitive flexibility and control. Each child’s caregiver also completed the MCDI for English and Spanish to obtain a measure\nof each child’s productive vocabulary and knowledge of TEs. Correlation analyses showed that performance on the RCT was\nsignificantly correlated with productive knowledge of TEs but not cognates. These findings suggest that the experience of\nproducing different words with the same meaning in two languages, as well as choosing between those words, may be an early\nmechanism underlying the bilingual advantage in cognitive control.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bb4v8dq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Christina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schonberg","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Natsuki","middle_name":"","last_name":"Atagi","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Catherine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sandhofer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26000/galley/15624/download/"}]}