Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
Research shows that bilingualism confers substantial cognitive benefits in children and the elderly. Bilingual advantages on nonverbal working memory, updating, shifting and inhibition tasks are widely reported. However, advantages are not always observed in young adults. These disparities may be due to varied proficiency levels and task types (verbal versus nonverbal) administered. This study sought to detect bilingual performance advantages on executive function and working memory tasks (verbal and nonverbal working memory, updating, shifting and inhibition tasks) between groups of 37 high and 37 low proficiency Spanish-English bilingual and 40 English monolingual young adults. ... Young adulthood may represent a lull during which bilingualism does not confer cognitive advantages for functions examined.
Extent
vi, 61 p. : ill.
Recommended Citation
Lalwani, Laxmi N., "effects of language proficiency and task type on executive function and working memory performance in bilingual adults" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 511.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/511
Identifier
FADT3358602
Comments
by Laxmi N. Lalwani.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012.|Includes bibliography.|Mode of access: World Wide Web.|System requirements: Adobe Reader.|by Laxmi N. Lalwani.