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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 1 Mean Reaction Time (RT) (in Milliseconds) and Accuracy (ACC) for Simon Task and Language Group

From: Inhibitory and attentional control: the interaction between “professional activity” and bilingualism

    

Lateral

 

Language group

No. of colors

Center

Congruent

Incongruent

Simon effect

  

RT (ms)

ACC (%)

RT (ms)

ACC (%)

RT (ms)

ACC (%)

 

Monolingual

        

(20)

2

570.67 (105.47)

0.99 (0.02)

648.04 (108.94)

0.98* (0.05)

578.85 (106.72)

1.00 (0.01)

-69.18

 

4

711.47 (174.72)

0.98 (0.04)

698.77 (160.12)

0.99 (0.02)

669.76 (118.64)

1.00 (0.01)

-29.01

Bilingual

        

(20)

2

517.44 (130.55)

0.98 (0.04)

571.57* (128.82)

0.96 (0.05)

533.90 (113.69)

0.99 (0.04)

-37.67

 

4

622.20* (159.64)

0.97 (0.04)

634.13 (129.10)

0.96 (0.05)

630.20 (157.08)

0.99 (0.02)

-3.93

  1. Note. Source: Study data. Standard deviations are in parentheses
  2. *Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05)