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Is there a bilingual advantage in the ANT task? Evidence from children

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, May 2014
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Title
Is there a bilingual advantage in the ANT task? Evidence from children
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2014
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00398
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Authors

Eneko Antón, Jon A. Duñabeitia, Adelina Estévez, Juan A. Hernández, Alejandro Castillo, Luis J. Fuentes, Douglas J. Davidson, Manuel Carreiras

Abstract

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals in a variety of tasks that do not tap into linguistic processes. The origin of this bilingual advantage has been questioned in recent years. While some authors argue that the reason behind this apparent advantage is bilinguals' enhanced executive functioning, inhibitory skills and/or monitoring abilities, other authors suggest that the locus of these differences between bilinguals and monolinguals may lie in uncontrolled factors or incorrectly matched samples. In the current study we tested a group of 180 bilingual children and a group of 180 carefully matched monolinguals in a child-friendly version of the ANT task. Following recent evidence from similar studies with children, our results showed no bilingual advantage at all, given that the performance of the two groups in the task and the indices associated with the individual attention networks were highly similar and statistically indistinguishable.

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Country Count As %
Italy 2 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 283 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 71 24%
Student > Bachelor 46 16%
Student > Master 45 16%
Researcher 23 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 5%
Other 34 12%
Unknown 56 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 124 43%
Linguistics 36 12%
Neuroscience 20 7%
Social Sciences 14 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 2%
Other 26 9%
Unknown 65 22%
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