H2020Индивидуална стипендия2018–2020

MetaBil · Metacognition and bilingualism in linguistic and non-linguistic domains

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-12-01 → 2020-11-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 170 122 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Двуезичието влияе ли върху метапознанието – способността да оценим дали отговорът ни е верен, например при езикова задача или математическо изчисление. Това помага да се разбере дали умението да следим собствените си мисловни процеси е общо или зависи от конкретната област.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Metacognition and bilingualism in linguistic and non-linguistic domains

Metacognition is the ability to monitor one’s own cognitive processing, behavioural performance and conscious decisions. Earlier evidence suggested that individual experience in a particular operational domain (e.g., spatial visual attention, memory) can lead to improvements in metacognitive monitoring in this domain: while making a decision in a particular task, people can better estimate the likelihood of making an error, and, for example, they assign lower confidence rating to those decisions when they are more likely to make a mistake. In other words, people can better evaluate available evidence they can use for decision, and their own ability to give correct answer based on this evidence. However, we did not have evidence to what extent this effect extends beyond low-level perceptual tasks and memory to high-level cognitive performance (e.g., in language processing, calculus, etc.) Moreover, it is hotly debated whether metacognitive enhancement in one domain can be transferred to a different domain, or whether metacognitive skills are specific to the domain in which they are forged. In this project, we addressed the question whether enhanced individual experience with language processing, honed by bilingualism, leads to enhanced metacognitive skills in language domain, and if so, whether this enhancement can be transferred to non-language domains (in other words, whether bilinguals, when compared to monolinguals, can better estimate the probability of giving a correct answer or making an error when they are doing a language task; and if so, whether bilinguals’ metacognitive enhancement can also be observed in non-language domain.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Over the last decades a great deal of studies have been done to explore the cognitive benefits of bilingualism, or to challenge the bilingual advantage in cognitive control. But almost nothing is known about the effect of bilingualism on metacognition, namely, the ability to monitor one’s own cognitive performance and the outcome of the cognitive processes across different task domains (linguistic and non-linguistic). Metacognitive processing may be influenced by the experience of a given individual in a specific domain. Consequently, bilinguals might display improved metacognitive awareness in tasks that are linguistic in nature. As they have more experience in linguistic tasks, error-detection and monitoring mechanism may be enhanced in bilinguals compared to monolinguals in these sort of tasks. Yet we still lack empirical evidence whether individual experience in language processing can also lead to enhanced metacognitive processing in linguistic domain, and whether it can be transferred to non-linguistic tasks. Building upon preliminary evidence presented in this proposal, this project will address for the first time how the bilingual experience and environment interact with metacognitive processing at both behavioral and neural levels. Within the framework of the proposed project, I plan to address the following questions:1. How does bilingualism influence metacognitive sensitivity, efficiency and bias in performing linguistic and non-linguistic tasks in visual and auditory modalities?2. Which brain circuits are involved in metacognitive processing in linguistic (as opposed to non-linguistic tasks), and how they are affected by bilingualism and environment?To address these issues, I propose a series of behavioral experiments followed by an fMRI study to define the brain networks and substrates involved into metacognitive processing, and to explore how individual differences in long-term experience affect these networks and modulate metacognitive processing.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE · San SebastianКоординаторИспания