Su?Jin Yang|Hwajin Yang
Bilingual effects on deployment of the attention system in linguistically and culturally homogeneous children and adults
Ewha Womans University|Singapore Management University
investigated impact early childhood adulthood bilingualism attention system group linguistically culturally homogeneous children 5 6year olds young adults administered child attention network test ant 63 english monolingual koreanenglish bilingual children administered adult ant 39 language culturematched college students advantageous bilingual effects attention observed children adults global processing levels inverse efficiency response time accuracy magnitude pronounced children adults differential bilingualism effects evident local network level executive control orienting favor adult bilinguals notably however bilingual children achieved adult level accuracy incongruent flanker condition implying enhanced attentional skills cope interferences findings suggest although child adult bilinguals share cognitive advantages attentional functioning agerelated cognitive linguistic maturation differentially shapes outcomes attentional processing local network level