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Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse

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    Identifier:  imarina:9230613
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9230613
    Authors:  Leivada, Evelina; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit
    Abstract:
    One of the most contentious topics in cognitive science concerns the impact of bilingualism on cognitive functions and neural resources. Research on executive functions has shown that bilinguals often perform better than monolinguals in tasks that require monitoring and inhibiting automatic responses. The robustness of this effect is a matter of an ongoing debate, with both sides approaching bilingual cognition mainly through measuring abilities that fall outside the core domain of language processing. However, the mental juggling that bilinguals perform daily involves language. This study takes a novel path to bilingual cognition by comparing the performance of monolinguals and bilinguals in a timed task that features a special category of stimulus, which has the peculiar ability to manipulate the cognitive parser into treating it as well-formed while it is not: grammatical illusions. The results reveal that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in detecting illusions, but they are also slower across the board in judging the stimuli, illusory or not. We capture this trade-off by proposing the Plurilingual Adaptive Trade-off Hypothesis (PATH), according to which the adaptation of bilinguals' cognitive abilities may (i) decrease fallibility to illusions by means of recruiting sharpened top-down control processes, but (ii) this is part of a larger bundle of effects, not all of which are necessarily advantageous.

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    Link to the original source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256173
    APA: Leivada, Evelina; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit; (2021). Bilinguals are better than monolinguals in detecting manipulative discourse. Plos One, 16(9), -. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256173
    Paper original source: Plos One. 16 (9):
    Article's DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256173
    Journal publication year: 2021
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Record's date: 2024-07-27
    URV's Author/s: Leivada, Evangelia
    Department: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
    Author, as appears in the article.: Leivada, Evelina; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit;
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros, Sociology, Sociología, Serviço social, Saúde coletiva, Química, Psychology, Psicología, Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia, Odontología, Nutrição, Multidisciplinary sciences, Multidisciplinary, Medicine (miscellaneous), Medicina veterinaria, Medicina iii, Medicina ii, Medicina i, Materiais, Matemática / probabilidade e estatística, Linguística e literatura, Letras / linguística, Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences, Interdisciplinar, Human geography and urban studies, History & philosophy of science, Historia, Geografía, Geociências, General medicine, General biochemistry,genetics and molecular biology, General agricultural and biological sciences, Farmacia, Environmental studies, Ensino, Engenharias iv, Engenharias iii, Engenharias ii, Engenharias i, Enfermagem, Educação física, Educação, Economia, Direito, Demography, Comunicação e informação, Ciências sociais aplicadas i, Ciências biológicas iii, Ciências biológicas ii, Ciências biológicas i, Ciências ambientais, Ciências agrárias i, Ciência política e relações internacionais, Ciência de alimentos, Ciência da computação, Biotecnología, Biology, Biodiversidade, Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (miscellaneous), Astronomia / física, Arquitetura, urbanismo e design, Archaeology, Antropologia / arqueologia, Anthropology, Agricultural and biological sciences (miscellaneous), Administração, ciências contábeis e turismo, Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
    Author's mail: evelina.leivada@urv.cat

  • Keywords:

    Spanish-english
    Reaction time
    Normal human
    Muller-lyer-illusion
    Male
    Linguistics
    Language processing
    Human experiment
    Human
    Greek (language)
    Grammatical illusions
    Grammar
    German (language)
    Female
    English (language)
    Decision making
    Controlled study
    Bilingualism
    Article
    Advantage
    Adult
    Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Miscellaneous)
    Biochemistry
    Genetics and Molecular Biology (Miscellaneous)
    Biology
    Medicine (Miscellaneous)
    Multidisciplinary
    Multidisciplinary Sciences
    Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros
    Sociology
    Sociología
    Serviço social
    Saúde coletiva
    Química
    Psychology
    Psicología
    Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia
    Odontología
    Nutrição
    Medicina veterinaria
    Medicina iii
    Medicina ii
    Medicina i
    Materiais
    Matemática / probabilidade e estatística
    Linguística e literatura
    Letras / linguística
    Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences
    Interdisciplinar
    Human geography and urban studies
    History & philosophy of science
    Historia
    Geografía
    Geociências
    General medicine
    General biochemistry
    genetics and molecular biology
    General agricultural and biological sciences
    Farmacia
    Environmental studies
    Ensino
    Engenharias iv
    Engenharias iii
    Engenharias ii
    Engenharias i
    Enfermagem
    Educação física
    Educação
    Economia
    Direito
    Demography
    Comunicação e informação
    Ciências sociais aplicadas i
    Ciências biológicas iii
    Ciências biológicas ii
    Ciências biológicas i
    Ciências ambientais
    Ciências agrárias i
    Ciência política e relações internacionais
    Ciência de alimentos
    Ciência da computação
    Biotecnología
    Biodiversidade
    Astronomia / física
    Arquitetura
    urbanismo e design
    Archaeology
    Antropologia / arqueologia
    Anthropology
    Agricultural and biological sci

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