Are all interferences bad? Bilingual advantages in working memory are modulated by varying demands for controlled processing

• Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, YANG, Sujin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: bilingualism; controlled attention; executive attention; interference; working memory; Cognitive Psychology; Multicultural Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2057; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3314/viewcontent/Bilingual_advantages_WM_2016_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We investigated bilingual advantages in general control abilities using three complex-span tasks of working memory (WM). An operation-span task served as a baseline measure of WM capacity. Additionally, two modified versions of the Stroop-span task were designed to place varying attentional-control...