Brianna Yamasaki’s paper on how differences in bilingual experience affect cognition has being officially published on Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience! In the paper, Brianna and her co-authors show that the performance of bilinguals in the Attentional Blink task depends on the nature of their bilingual experience: which languages they learned, and how often they use them. Check out the full paper on the journal’s website.

Figure 7 from Brianna's LCN paper
Performance on the Attentional Blink Task for individuals with distant vs. closely related languages. Note the greater accuracy of speakers of distantly related languages.
Figure 6 from Briannas LCN paper
Performance on the Attentional Blink Task for individuals with balanced vs. unbalanced use of their languages. Bilinguals with a more balanced use of their language have greater accuracy.
New CCDL article published in Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience
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