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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• López-Rojas, Cristina
• Rossi, Eleonora
• Marful, Alejandra
• Bajo, Mª Teresa

Titel

Prospective memory in bilinguals and monolinguals: ERP and behavioural correlates of prospective processing in bilinguals

Ist Teil von

• Brain and language, 2022-02, Vol.225, p.105059-105059, Article 105059

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Prospective memory relies on processes also used by bilinguals for language control.•Bilingual experience can affect neural signals for prospective memory performance.•Early bilingual differed in updating and monitoring during prospective memory task.•Language context and age of L2 acquisition can explain these differences. Prospective memory (PM) allows us to form intentions and execute them in the future. Successful retrieval of prospective intentions depends on adequate context monitoring and disengagement from the ongoing task. These processes are also central in predicting incoming language information and guiding language production in bilinguals. We investigated if different bilingual experiences (early/late bilinguals, monolinguals) modulate performance in PM tasks that varied in attentional requirements (focal vs. non-focal). Behavioural and event-related potential (ERP) results indicated that early bilinguals differed from late bilinguals and monolinguals in how they performed the prospective task. Specifically, they showed larger differences between the ongoing activity and the prospective task in the N300 and P3b components when performing the more difficult non-focal PM task, indicating that they engaged in monitoring/updating to adapt to the task’s demands. These differences were not observed in late bilinguals and monolinguals, suggesting that prospective processing is dependent on the bilingual experience.