Electrophysiological Evidence for Endogenous Control of Attention in Switching between Languages in Overt Picture Naming
Publication year
2010Source
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 8, (2010), pp. 1832-1843ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
Display more detailsDisplay less details
Organization
SW OZ DCC PL
SW OZ DCC CO
Journal title
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Volume
vol. 22
Issue
iss. 8
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 1832
Page end
p. 1843
Subject
DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 1: Language and Communication; PsycholinguisticsAbstract
Language switching in bilingual speakers requires attentional control to select the appropriate language, for example, in picture naming. Previous language-switch studies used the color of pictures to indicate the required language thereby confounding endogenous and exogenous control. To investigate endogenous language control, our language cues preceded picture stimuli by 750 msec. Cue-locked event-related potentials (ERPs) were measured while Dutch-English bilingual speakers overtly named pictures. The response language on consecutive trials could be the same (repeat trials) or different (switch trials). Naming latencies were longer on switch than on repeat trials, independent of the response language. Cue-locked ERPs showed an early posterior negativity for switch compared to repeat trials for L2 but not for L1, and a late anterior negativity for switch compared to repeat trials for both languages. The early switch-repeat effect might reflect disengaging from the nontarget native language, whereas the late switch-repeat effect reflects engaging in the target language. Implications for models of bilingual word production are discussed.
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
- Academic publications [238441]
- Electronic publications [122527]
- Faculty of Social Sciences [29483]
- Open Access publications [97521]
Upload full text
Use your RU credentials (u/z-number and password) to log in with SURFconext to upload a file for processing by the repository team.