TY - JOUR
T1 - Specificity of the bilingual advantage for memory
T2 - Examining cued recall, generalization, and working memory in monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual toddlers
AU - Brito, Natalie H.
AU - Grenell, Amanda
AU - Barr, Rachel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Brito, Grenell and Barr.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The specificity of the bilingual advantage in memory was examined by testing groups of monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual 24-month-olds on tasks tapping cued recall, memory generalization and working memory. For the cued recall and memory generalization conditions, there was a 24-h delay between time of encoding and time of retrieval. In addition to the memory tasks, parent-toddler dyads completed a picture-book reading task, in order to observe emotional responsiveness, and a parental report of productive vocabulary. Results indicated no difference between language groups on cued recall, working memory, emotional responsiveness, or productive vocabulary, but a significant difference was found in the memory generalization condition with only the bilingual group outperforming the baseline control group. These results replicate and extend results from past studies (Brito and Barr, 2012, 2014; Brito et al., 2014) and suggest a bilingual advantage specific to memory generalization.
AB - The specificity of the bilingual advantage in memory was examined by testing groups of monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual 24-month-olds on tasks tapping cued recall, memory generalization and working memory. For the cued recall and memory generalization conditions, there was a 24-h delay between time of encoding and time of retrieval. In addition to the memory tasks, parent-toddler dyads completed a picture-book reading task, in order to observe emotional responsiveness, and a parental report of productive vocabulary. Results indicated no difference between language groups on cued recall, working memory, emotional responsiveness, or productive vocabulary, but a significant difference was found in the memory generalization condition with only the bilingual group outperforming the baseline control group. These results replicate and extend results from past studies (Brito and Barr, 2012, 2014; Brito et al., 2014) and suggest a bilingual advantage specific to memory generalization.
KW - Bilingualism
KW - Deferred imitation
KW - Generalization
KW - Imitation
KW - Infant development
KW - Memory
KW - Memory flexibility
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U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01369
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01369
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84923354828
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 5
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
IS - DEC
M1 - 1369
ER -