{"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","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27039/galley/16675/download/"}]}