| Bilingualism Enriches the Poor: Enhanced Cognitive Control in Low-Income Minority Children. | |
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PMID: 23044796 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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This study explores whether the cognitive advantage associated with bilingualism in executive functioning extends to young immigrant children challenged by poverty and, if it does, which specific processes are most affected. In the study reported here, 40 Portuguese-Luxembourgish bilingual children from low-income immigrant families in Luxembourg and 40 matched monolingual children from Portugal completed visuospatial tests of working memory, abstract reasoning, selective attention, and interference suppression. Two broad cognitive factors of executive functioning-representation (abstract reasoning and working memory) and control (selective attention and interference suppression)-emerged from principal component analysis. Whereas there were no group differences in representation, the bilinguals performed significantly better than did the monolinguals in control. These results demonstrate, first, that the bilingual advantage is neither confounded with nor limited by socioeconomic and cultural factors and, second, that separable aspects of executive functioning are differentially affected by bilingualism. The bilingual advantage lies in control but not in visuospatial representational processes. |
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Pascale M J Engel de Abreu; Anabela Cruz-Santos; Carlos J Tourinho; Romain Martin; Ellen Bialystok |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-10-8 |
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Title: Psychological science Volume: - ISSN: 1467-9280 ISO Abbreviation: Psychol Sci Publication Date: 2012 Oct |
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Created Date: 2012-10-9 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9007542 Medline TA: Psychol Sci Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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1Educational Measurement and Applied Cognitive Science Research Unit, University of Luxembourg. |
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