Bilingualism confers advantages in task switching: Evidence from the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task

• Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, HARTANTO, Andree, YANG, Sujin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Bilingualism; Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS); task switching; local-switch cost; mixing cost; single-task switch cost; reactivation benefit; Applied Behavior Analysis; Multicultural Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2328; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3585/viewcontent/Bilingualism_confers_advantages_in_task_switching_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examined the influence of bilingualism on task switching by inspecting various markers for task-switching costs. English monolinguals and Korean–English bilinguals completed a modified Dimensional Change Card Sort task based on a nonverbal task-switching paradigm. We found advantages for Korean–E...