Social facilitation and bilingual cognitive advantage: Bridging social psychology and psycholinguistics

• Published in: Heliyon Vol. 9; no. 2; p. e13239
• Main Authors: Bennani, Amine, El Ahmadi, Abdessadek, Channouf, Ahmed, Boujraf, Said, Benzagmout, Mohamed, Boussaoud, Driss
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2023; Elsevier
• Subjects: cognition; Cognitive science; Executive attention; Inhibitory control; Language processing; Life Sciences; Mere presence; Prefrontal cortex; social environment; social facilitation; Inhibitory control; Language processing; Prefrontal cortex; Executive attention; Mere presence

This study examined the role of social context in the expression of the bilingual cognitive advantage in 145 bilingual university students. All participants mastered Arabic as their native language (L1), but half were highly proficient in French (high L2 group), whereas half were less proficient (lo...