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Suppression Mechanisms in Monolingual and Bilingual Language Comprehension: Evidence from Eye-Tracking, Priming, and Inhibitory Control Tasks

Description:

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals on inhibitory control tasks that measure suppression of irrelevant information. However, no mechanism is established for development of this advantage. Since bilinguals activate their languages in parallel during comprehension, they may face higher processing demands. As a result, they may recruit more cognitive...

Keyword:

Eye-Tracking, Stroop Task, Bilingualism, Negative Priming, Comprehension, and Inhibition

Subject:

Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology

Creator:

Katina Henrike Blumenfield

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/10/2018

Date Modified:

09/10/2018

Date Created:

2008-05-12

Resource Type:

Dissertation