@article{ref1,
title="Does integrating a code-switch during comprehension engage cognitive control?",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition",
year="2019",
author="Adler, Rachel M. and Valdés Kroff, Jorge R. and Novick, Jared M.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="We investigated whether bilinguals' integration of a code-switch during real-time comprehension, which involves resolving among conflicting linguistic representations, modulates the deployment of cognitive-control mechanisms. In the current experiment, Spanish-English bilinguals (N = 48) completed a cross-task conflict-adaptation paradigm that tested whether reading code-switched sentences triggers cognitive-control engagement that immediately influences performance on an ensuing Flanker trial. We observed that, while incrementally processing sentences, detecting a code-switch (as opposed to reading sentences that did not contain a code-switch) assisted subsequent conflict resolution. Such temporal interdependence between confronting cross-linguistic conflict and ensuing adjustments in behavior indicates that integrating a code-switch during online comprehension may recruit domain-general cognitive-control procedures. We propose that such control mechanisms mobilize to resolve among competing representations that arise across languages during real-time parsing of code-switched input. Overall, the findings provide novel insight into what language-processing demands of bilingualism regulate cognitive-control performance moment by moment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-7393",
doi="10.1037/xlm0000755",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000755"
}