Ouzia, J;
Bright, P;
Filippi, R;
(2019)
Attentional Control in Bilingualism: An Exploration of the Effects of Trait Anxiety and Rumination on Inhibition.
Behavioral Sciences
, 9
(8)
, Article 89. 10.3390/bs9080089.
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Abstract
Bilingual individuals have been reported to show enhanced executive function in comparison to monolingual peers. However, the role of adverse emotional traits such as trait anxiety and rumination in bilingual cognitive control has not been established. Attentional Control Theory holds that anxiety disproportionately impacts processing efficiency (typically measured via reaction time) in comparison to accuracy (performance effectiveness). We administered eye tracking and behavioural measures of inhibition to young, healthy monolingual and highly proficient bilingual adults. We found that trait anxiety was a reliable risk factor for decreased inhibitory control accuracy in bilingual but not monolingual participants. These findings, therefore, indicate that adverse emotional traits may differentially modulate performance in monolingual and bilingual individuals, an interpretation which has implications both for ACT and future research on bilingual cognition.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Attentional Control in Bilingualism: An Exploration of the Effects of Trait Anxiety and Rumination on Inhibition |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/bs9080089 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9080089 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Attentional Control Theory, bilingualism, executive function, eye tracking, inhibitory control, rumination, trait anxiety |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080799 |
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