Early Childhood Bilingualism Leads to Advances in Executive Attention: Dissociating Culture and Language

• Main Authors: YANG, Sujin, YANG, Hwajin, LUST, Barbara
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: bilingual cognitive advantage; culture; executive attention; Attention Network Test; Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education; Multicultural Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1059; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2315/viewcontent/YangH2011BilingualismLC.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study investigated whether early especially efficient utilization of executive functioning in young bilinguals would transcend potential cultural benefits. To dissociate potential cultural effects from bilingualism, four-year-old U.S. Korean-English bilingual children were compared to three mon...