• DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.09.044
Corpus ID: 32548028

Effect of bilingualism on cognitive control in the Simon task: evidence from MEG

@article{Bialystok2005EffectOB,
  title={Effect of bilingualism on cognitive control in the Simon task: evidence from MEG},
  author={E. Bialystok and F. I. Craik and C. Grady and W. Chau and Ryouhei Ishii and A. Gunji and C. Pantev},
  journal={NeuroImage},
  year={2005},
  volume={24},
  pages={40-49}
}

E. Bialystok, F. I. Craik, +4 authors C. Pantev

Published 2005

Medicine, Psychology, Computer Science

NeuroImage

The present study used magneto-encephalography (MEG) to determine the neural correlates of the bilingual advantage previously reported for behavioral measures in conflict tasks. Bilingual Cantonese-English, bilingual French-English, and monolingual English speakers, performed the Simon task in the MEG. Reaction times were faster for congruent than for incongruent trials, and the Cantonese group was faster than the other two groups, which did not differ from each other. Analyses of the MEG data… CONTINUE READING

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