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Attention, Vision and Control in Bilinguals

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In this chapter, my aim is to show the importance of attention as a mechanism in understanding bilingual language and cognitive control. Although attention is part of any cognitive psychological task, more recently many authors have turned to it to understand the nature of bilingual control. Most of the studies on bilingual advantage so far have used manual response time measures. In this chapter studies are discussed that have shown the effect of eye movement control with visual stimuli that offer a contrast to studies with manual responses. Bilingual cognitive control includes dynamic interaction among different types of inputs and mechanisms. Data from the visual world paradigm correlate with executive control measures. This shows the intimate relationship between inhibitory control and language non-selective activation.

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Mishra, R.K. (2018). Attention, Vision and Control in Bilinguals. In: Bilingualism and Cognitive Control. The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92513-4_7

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