Language Control Across Comprehension and Production in Unimodal and Bimodal Bilinguals
University of California, San Diego
Summary
This study aims to investigate how unimodal bilinguals who speak two languages and bimodal bilinguals who speak one language and sign another control languages across comprehension and production. Participants will complete different language tasks (e.g., classify a word, name a picture) in different languages, and their behavioral performance will be assessed, including accuracy and reaction time.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–65 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Proficient in both Mandarin and English, or proficiency in both ASL and English Exclusion Criteria: * Know a third language better than Mandarin/English or better than ASL/English * With language disorder or other neurological disorders
Interventions
- BehavioralPredictability
Whether the task of the next trial (comprehension or production) is predictable
- Behaviorallanguage context
whether both languages or only one language is involved in the current block
Location
- UCSDSan Diego, California