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HERO ID
7135342
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
Does integrating a code-switch during comprehension engage cognitive control?
Author(s)
Adler, RM; Valdés Kroff, , JR; Novick, JM; ,
Year
2020
Is Peer Reviewed?
Yes
Journal
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
ISSN:
0278-7393
Language
English
PMID
31448933
DOI
10.1037/xlm0000755
Abstract
We investigated whether bilinguals' integration of a code-switch during real-time comprehension, which involves resolving among conflicting linguistic representations, modulates the deployment of cognitive-control mechanisms. In the current experiment, Spanish-English bilinguals (N = 48) completed a cross-task conflict-adaptation paradigm that tested whether reading code-switched sentences triggers cognitive-control engagement that immediately influences performance on an ensuing Flanker trial. We observed that, while incrementally processing sentences, detecting a code-switch (as opposed to reading sentences that did not contain a code-switch) assisted subsequent conflict resolution. Such temporal interdependence between confronting cross-linguistic conflict and ensuing adjustments in behavior indicates that integrating a code-switch during online comprehension may recruit domain-general cognitive-control procedures. We propose that such control mechanisms mobilize to resolve among competing representations that arise across languages during real-time parsing of code-switched input. Overall, the findings provide novel insight into what language-processing demands of bilingualism regulate cognitive-control performance moment by moment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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