Attentional Control in Bilingualism: An Exploration of the Effects of Trait Anxiety and Rumination on Inhibition.

Julia Ouzia, Peter Bright, Roberto Filippi

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Impact of multilingualism on cardiac autonomic activity, working memory and trait anxiety: a pilot study.Cognitive processing · 2026
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Individual Variation and the Bilingual Advantage-Factors that Modulate the Effect of Bilingualism on Cognitive Control and Cognitive Reserve.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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Julia OuziaDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University College London, Institute of Education, Department of Psychology and Human Development, London WC1E 6BT, UK. j.ouzia@ucl.ac.uk.

Peter BrightMultilanguage & Cognition lab (MULTAC), University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Roberto FilippiDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University College London, Institute of Education, Department of Psychology and Human Development, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

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Leverhulme Trust RGP-2015-024

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Abstract

Bilingual individuals have been reported to show enhanced executive function in comparison to monolingual peers. However, the role of adverse emotional traits such as trait anxiety and rumination in bilingual cognitive control has not been established. Attentional Control Theory holds that anxiety disproportionately impacts processing efficiency (typically measured via reaction time) in comparison to accuracy (performance effectiveness). We administered eye tracking and behavioural measures of inhibition to young, healthy monolingual and highly proficient bilingual adults. We found that trait anxiety was a reliable risk factor for decreased inhibitory control accuracy in bilingual but not monolingual participants. These findings, therefore, indicate that adverse emotional traits may differentially modulate performance in monolingual and bilingual individuals, an interpretation which has implications both for ACT and future research on bilingual cognition.

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Attentional Control Theorybilingualismexecutive functioneye trackinginhibitory controlruminationtrait anxiety

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PMID31430913

DOI10.3390/bs9080089

PMCPMC6721333

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