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Linck, Jared A.; Schwieter, John W.; Sunderman, Gretchen – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study investigated the role of domain-general inhibitory control in trilingual speech production. Taking an individual differences approach, we examined the relationship between performance on a non-linguistic measure of inhibitory control (the Simon task) and a multilingual language switching task for a group of fifty-six native English (L1)…
Descriptors: Evidence, Speech, Multilingualism, Inhibition
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Yim, Odilia; Bialystok, Ellen – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The study examined individual differences in code-switching to determine the relationship between code-switching frequency and performance in verbal and non-verbal task switching. Seventy-eight Cantonese-English bilinguals completed a semi-structured conversation to quantify natural code-switching, a verbal fluency task requiring language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Sino Tibetan Languages, English (Second Language)
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Unsworth, Nash; Engle, Randall W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Three experiments examined the nature of individual differences in switching the focus of attention in working memory. Participants performed 3 versions of a continuous counting task that required successive updating and switching between counts. Across all 3 experiments, individual differences in working memory span and fluid intelligence were…
Descriptors: Memory, Short Term Memory, Individual Differences, Experiments