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    "pk": 27039,
    "title": "Novel Evidence for the Bilingual Advantage: Effects of Language Control onExecutive Function in Balanced and Unbalanced Dual-Language Users",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Bilinguals’ need to monitor and inhibit non-relevantlanguages over a relevant one confers advantage in cognitivecontrol. No studies have demonstrated that the dual-languagecontrol process directly contributes to the bilingual cognitiveadvantage. We utilized a novel language control manipulationparadigm where 83 English-Chinese bilingual adultscompleted a reading and comprehension task in either single-language (low-language-control) or dual-language (high-language-control) prior to performing nonverbal executivecontrol tasks (Stroop, task-switching, and n-back). Resultsshowed that language control had significant effects onsubsequent cognitive performance, depending on whether theparticipants were regular dual language users or not. In thedual-language condition, but not the single-languagecondition, participants who used both languages regularlydemonstrated a smaller mixing cost in task-switching and agreater sensitivity in n-back detection compared toparticipants who did not. This suggests that dual languagecontrol utilizes similar resources as executive function andfrequent dual language use enhances this resource.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "bilingualism; cognitive resources; task mixing;working memory; adults"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/404236s9",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "W. Quin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yow",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Adam",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Oei",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Xiaoqian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Li",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}