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Table 2 Mean Reaction Times (in Milliseconds) (a) and Error Rates (%) (b) for Bilingual and Monolingual Participants Broken for Flanker Type and Cue Type

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

 

Flanker

 

Congruent

Incongruent

Conflict effect

 

Bil

Mon

Bil

Mon

Bil

Mon

Δ Bil-Mon

(a) Cue

       

None

595 (85)

621 (69)

699 (119)

742 (74)

104

121

17

Double

549 (77)

571 (55)

668* (110)

725 (60)

119

154

35

Center

572 (96)

593 (66)

682 (118)

744 (86)

110

151

41

Spatial

511 (76)

538 (70)

591 (107)

654 (93)

80

116

36

Allerting effect

46

50

31

17

   

Δ Bil-Mon

 

4

 

14

   

Orienting effect

61

55

91

90

   

Δ Bil-Mon

 

6

 

1

   

(b) Cue

       

None

0.01 (0.02)

0.01 (0.02)

0.02 (0.03)

0.03 (0.04)

0.01

0.02

0.01

Double

0.00 (0.01)

0.00 (0.01)

0.02 (0.03)

0.04 (0.04)

0.02

0.04

0.02

Center

0.01 (0.02)

0.01 (0.02)

0.02 (0.03)

0.04 (0.07)

0.01

0.03

0.02

Spatial

0.00 (0.01)

0.01 (0.02)

0.02 (0.03)

0.02 (0.05)

0.02

0.01

0.01

Allerting effect

0.01

0.01

0

-0.01

   

Δ Bil-Mon

 

0

 

-0.01

   

Orienting effect

0.01

0

0

0.02

   

Δ Bil-Mon

 

0.01

 

0.02

   
  1. Note. Source: Study data. Standard deviations are in parentheses
  2. *Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05); Bil (Bilingual); Mon (Monolingual);
  3. Δ Bil-Mon: the result of the difference between Bilinguals and Monolinguals