Journal of Student Research 2014

Differences in Executive Function & Creativity...

quantitative measure of the distance between English and other languages. Journal of Multilingualand Multicultural Development , 26(1), 1-11. Costa, A., Hernández, M., Costa-Faidella, J., & Sebastián- Gallés, N. (2009). On the bilingual advantage in conflict processing: Now you see it, now you don’t. Cognition , 113(2), 135-149. Gold, B. T., Kim, C., Johnson, N. F., Kryscio, R. J., & Smith, C. D. (2013). Lifelong bilingualism maintains neural efficiency for cognitive control in aging. Journal of Neuroscience , 33(2), 387-396. Green, D. W. (1998). Mental control of the bilingual lexico- semantic system Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 1(02), 67-81. Hilchey, M. D., & Klein, R. M. (2011). Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes. Psychonomic Bulletin &Review , 18(4), 625-658. Miyake, A., & Friedman, N. P. (2012). The nature and organization of individual differences in executive functions: Four general conclusions. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 21(1), 8-14. Paap, K. R., & Greenberg, Z. I. (2013). There is no coherent evidence for a bilingual advantage in executive processing. Cognitive Psychology , 66(2), 232-258. Salvatierra, J. L., & Rosselli, M. (2011). The effect of bilingualism and age on inhibitory control. International Journal of Bilingualism , 15(1), 26-37. Shimamura, A. P. (2000). The role of the prefrontal cortex in dynamic filtering Psychobiology , 28(2), 207-218. Acknowledgements I would like to thank my faculty mentor Dr. Wilma Koutstaal for all of her help and guidance she supplied me with throughout the summer program, and for allowing me to be a part of her lab. I would also like thank my graduate student mentor Lily Sun, for all of the suggestions, help, and feedback she gave me on all of my REU projects this summer. Lastly, I would like that thank REU program directors Dr. Gershenson and Dr. Fletcher for allowing me the opportunity to have this extraordinary experience. This program is supported by NSF Grant # SMA – 1063006.

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