Differential cerebral involvement in the cognitive functioning of bilinguals

Vaid, Jyotsna; Lambert, Wallace E.

doi:10.1016/0093-934x(79)90043-9

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“…The generalizability of the Genesee et al findings may be limited, however, in light of the small sample size, lack of monolingual controls, and unequal sex composition. A study by Vaid and Lambert (1979), in which these factors were taken into account, replicated the findings of Genesee et al using an auditory interference paradigm and, in addition, found a sex difference whereby females appeared to be less lateralized than males. A dichotic study with French and English monolingual and bilingual children found no group differences in accuracy of recall per ear of words in the two languages (Bellisle, Note 4).…”

Section: Relative Age Of Second Language Acquisitionsupporting

confidence: 71%

“…However, a comprehensive theory of hemispheric processing of language in bilinguals will also have to incorporate those factors that are common to bilinguals and monolinguals, such as handedness (Andrews, 1977;Obrach, 1967) and sex differences (Gordon, 1980;Vaid & Lambert, 1979;Waber, 1977), which have been shown to influence the pattern of laterality in both monolinguals and bilinguals.…”

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“…2) and Kotik (Note 5), the more formally the second language is learned, the greater the likelihood of left hemispheric involvement. Conversely, as in the case of Genesee et al (1978), Vaid and Lambert (1979) and the English-Hebrew bilinguals studied by Gordon (1980), the more informally the second language is acquired, the greater the likelihood of right hemispheric involvement. The account presented above by no means exhausts the set of possible combinations of age, stage and manner of acquisition.…”

Section: Hemispheric Involvement In the Language Processing Ofb Ilingmentioning

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“…Galloway, Note 1). Four additional studies have implicated right hemispheric involvement in the second language of proficient bilinguals (Genesee et al, 1978;Gordon, 1980;Kotik, Note 5;Vaid & Lambert, 1979), suggesting that right hemispheric involvement may persist even in the final stages. In its present form, the stage hypothesis cannot accommodate such a possibility.…”

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Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: A critical review.

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1980

Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologi

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Clinical and experimental studies which have examined the neuropsychological bases of language processing in bilinguals are reviewed and evaluated. Evidence from case studies of polyglot aphasics suggests that the neuropsychological organization of their languages is the same for most bilinguals but that cases of dissociation do occur. Two main factors -language specific and language acquisitional -which might account for dissociation are defined and empirical evidence relevant to each is considered. It is argued that while clinical case studies of bilinguals suffering language disruption following brain damage have been significant in isolating these factors, they have failed to establish their explanatory power, due in part to inadequate data bases and in part to weak hypothesis-testing procedures.

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Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: A critical review.

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1980

Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologi

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“…Cohen and Martin (1975) presented auditory stimuli to the left or right ear using the Hamers (1973) high/low procedure. Again, the Stroop effect was larger in the left hemisphere, and was accentuated by simultaneous irrelevant distraction in the other ear (see also Vaid & Lambert, 1979, with the same task, and Pieters, 1981, using an auditory left/right position versus word-discrimination task). Alivisatos and Wilding (1982) used the global/local-letters task (with a manual response) to show that the local level of a foveally presented first stimulus interfered with processing a second stimulus in the right hemisphere but not in the left.…”

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Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: An integrative review.

MacLeod

1991

Psychological Bulletin

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The literature on interference in the Stroop Color-Word Task, covering over 50 years and some 400 studies, is organized and reviewed. In so doing, a set ofl 8 reliable empirical findings is isolated that must be captured by any successful theory of the Stroop effect. Existing theoretical positions are summarized and evaluated in view of this critical evidence and the 2 major candidate theories--relative speed of processing and automaticity of reading--are found to be wanting. It is concluded that recent theories placing the explanatory weight on parallel processing of the irrelevant and the relevant dimensions are likely to be more successful than are earlier theories attempting to locate a single bottleneck in attention.In 1935, J. R. Stroop published his landmark article on attention and interference, an article more influential now than it was then. Why has the Stroop task continued to fascinate us? Perhaps the task is seen as tapping into the primitive operations of cognition, offering clues to the fundamental process of attention. Perhaps the robustness of the phenomenon provides a special challenge to decipher. Together these are powerful attractions in a field of complex phenomena where the most subtie variation may exert a dramatic effect.In writing this article, I have two primary intentions. The first is to create a taxonomy of the empirical work on the Stroop task and its analogs. At least 70% of the more than 700 Strooprelated articles in the literature have been published since the reviews by Dyer (1973c) and Jensen and Rohwer (1966). Furthermore, Dyer's theoretical framework now seems in need of reconsideration, so that his review no longer provides the optimal organization. The second aim, then, is to survey existing theories, showing the critical weaknesses in the standard explanations and dispelling some myths that have arisen. I argue for a new theoretical framework for the Stroop effect, informed by contemporary cognitive psychology. This framework is more comprehensive than many earlier experiment-specific hypotheses, and suggests directions in which future research might profitably proceed.

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Neurolinguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Interpreting

Setton¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

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Differential cerebral involvement in the cognitive functioning of bilinguals

Cited by 65 publications

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Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: A critical review.

Neuropsychological approaches to bilingualism: A critical review.

Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: An integrative review.

Neurolinguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Interpreting

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