ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
The Influence of Second Language (L2) Proficiency on Cognitive Control Among Young Adult Unbalanced Chinese-English Bilinguals.
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- The interactive effect of L2 proficiency and interpreting experience on cognitive control.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Influence of Language Dominance on Crosslinguistic and Nonlinguistic Interference Resolution in Bilinguals.Bilingualism (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Individual and Sociolinguistic Differences in Language Background Predict Stroop Performance.Frontiers in communication · 2022Article
- Prediction of Second Language Proficiency Based on Electroencephalographic Signals Measured While Listening to Natural Speech.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Bilingualism, Demographics, and Cognitive Control: A Within-Group Approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Examining Language Switching and Cognitive Control Through the Adaptive Control Hypothesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Does the Bilingual Advantage in Cognitive Control Exist and If So, What Are Its Modulating Factors? A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Conflict Resolution Ability in Late Bilinguals Improves With Increased Second-Language Proficiency: ANT Evidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The current study investigates the influence of L2 proficiency on cognitive control among three matched groups of unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals. Flanker task was administered to measure conflict monitoring and inhibition, and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) to measure mental set shifting. ANOVA analyses of the Flanker results showed no differences in inhibition across all groups and no interaction between group and condition. However, the Flanker results showed faster performance for the highest L2 proficiency group relative to the lowest L2 proficiency group in all conditions (incongruent, neutral, and congruent), which reflects better ability of conflict monitoring. Finally, ANOVA analyses of the WCST results showed no differences across all groups. These results altogether suggest that L2 proficiency has significant influence on cognitive control, but only in conflict monitoring, not in inhibition or mental set shifting.
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