Muhammed Mudassir Makkacheentavida
Laya Raveendran
Abhishek BP
- Student Department of Speech Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing Karnataka India
- Student Department of Speech Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing Karnataka India
- Assistant Professor Department of Speech Language Pathology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing Karnataka India
Abstract
Attention is the ability to channelize the resource towards the stimulus. Sustained attention refers to the process of holding attention for a considerable span of time while selective attention refers to the ability selectively channelize the attention to an selected set of stimulus governed by instructions. This task would require the selective inhibition of the irrelevant stimulus. The current study was carried out with the aim of investigating the sustained attention and selective attention on recall task in young neuro-typical Malayalam-English bilinguals. Two tasks based on recall was designed exclusively for the study. Task A, the first task required the participants to recall items from 12 item recall list while the second task designated as task B required the participants to selectively recall one of the two stimulus sets based on the instructions provided by the investigator. The stimulus was presented in L1and L2 of the participants and the performance in L1 and L2 across task A and B was also carried out. The data was initially checked for normality by using Shapiro-Wilk’s test and the data was non-parameteric. The median scores were more task B compared to Task A and the results was attributed to capacity limitation. In the same lines, median scores were more for L2 compared to L1 and this was attributed to exposure. Within group analysis was carried out using Wilcoxon’s signed rank test and the results showed that there was a significant difference between Task A and Task B, while the performance on L1-L2 was significant only for Task A and not for Task B.
Keywords: Task complexity, Inhibition, Selectivity, Concentration, Bilingualism
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Research & Reviews: A Journal of Neuroscience
| Volume | |
| Received | April 2, 2024 |
| Accepted | June 13, 2024 |
| Published | June 19, 2024 |