Full Description
The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language system—a mental exercise which may lead to cognitive benefits. Through an in-depth exploration of these issues, Cognitive Control and Consequences of Multilingualism presents original studies and new perspectives which are cutting-edge and feature traditional and innovative methodologies such as ERPs, fMRIs, eye-tracking, picture- and numeral naming, the Simon, flanker, and oculomotor Stroop tasks, among others. The studies in this book investigate prominent themes in multilingual language control for both comprehension and production and probe the notion of a cognitive advantage that may be a result of multilingualism. The growing number of researchers, practitioners, and students alike will find this volume to be an instrumental source of readings that illuminates how one mind accommodates and controls multiple languages and the consequences it has on human cognition in general.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. About the editor; 3. About the contributors; 4. Part I: Introduction; 5. Cognitive and neurocognitive implications of language control and multilingualism (by Schwieter, John W.); 6. Part II: Cognitive control and multilingualism; 7. Chapter 1. Bilingualism, executive control, and eye movement measures of reading: A selective review and re-analysis of bilingual vs. multilingual reading data (by Titone, Debra); 8. Chapter 2. Listening with your cohort: Do bilingual toddlers co-activate cohorts from both languages when hearing words in one language alone? (by Bobb, Susan C.); 9. Chapter 3. The role of executive function in the perception of L2 speech sounds in young balanced and unbalanced dual language learners (by Archila-Suerte, Pilar); 10. Chapter 4. Are cognate words "special"?: On the role of cognate words in language switching performance (by Santesteban, Mikel); 11. Chapter 5. Action speaks louder than words, even in speaking: The influence of (no) overt speech production on language switch costs (by Philipp, Andrea M.); 12. Chapter 6. Influence of preparation time on language control: A trilingual digit-naming study (by Festman, Julia); 13. Chapter 7. When L1 suffers: Sustained, global slowing and the reversed language effect in mixed language context (by Christoffels, Ingrid); 14. Chapter 8. Effects of cognitive control, lexical robustness, and frequency of codeswitching on language switching (by Schwieter, John W.); 15. Chapter 9. The locus of cross-language activation: ERP evidence from unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals (by Guo, Taomei); 16. Chapter 10. Syntactic interference in bilingual naming during language switching: An electrophysiological study (by Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni); 17. Chapter 11. Multi-component perspective of cognitive control in bilingualism (by Morales, Julia); 18. Part III: Consequences of multilingualism; 19. Chapter 12. The bilingual advantage in the auditory domain: New directions in methodology and theory (by Ouzia, Julia); 20. Chapter 13. Executive functions in bilingual children: Is there a role for language balance? (by Prior, Anat); 21. Chapter 14. Home language usage and executive function in bilingual preschoolers (by Leon Guerrero, Sibylla); 22. Chapter 15. Cognitive mechanisms underlying performance differences between monolinguals and bilinguals (by Grundy, John G.); 23. Chapter 16. Time course differences between bilinguals and monolinguals in the Simon task* (by Narra, Manjunath); 24. Chapter 17. Top down influence on executive control in bilinguals: Influence of proficiency* (by Mishra, Ramesh Kumar); 25. Index
