期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
卷 43, 期 -, 页码 28-38出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.08.002
关键词
Bilingualism; Diffusion model; Attention; Flanker task; Cognitive advantage
资金
- GRF [754412]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and Seed Grants from the University of Hong Kong
- Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award [DE140100772]
Elderly bilingual speakers exhibit a response time (RT) advantage on tests of executive function such as the Flanker task. There is, however, a lack of consensus regarding the cognitive mechanisms underlying this bilingual advantage. We analysed Flanker task performance from elderly bilingual (N = 29, age range = 55-75) and monolingual (N = 27, age range = 53-75) speakers using Ratcliff's (1978) diffusion model, which conceptualizes decision-making as a stochastic evidence accumulation process governed by parameters with empirically validated psychological interpretations. These parameters were analysed to investigate differences in cognitive processing between bilingual and monolingual groups in flanker RT performance. A bilingual advantage on decision making onset (the non-decision time parameter) was observed. Non-decision time was shorter on incongruent flanker trials for bilingual speakers but other parameters relating to quality of evidence (drift rate) and decision criterion (boundary separation) did not differ between groups. We interpret this non-decision time cost as reflecting a process of attentional 'filtering out' of distracting information. We therefore contend that lifelong bilingual language experience generates enhanced attentional control for seniors. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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