1,814
Views
39
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
ARTICLES

The Role of Selective Attention in Bilingual Creativity

Pages 239-254 | Published online: 05 Aug 2011

REFERENCES

  • Abunuwara , E. ( 1992 ). The structure of the trilingual lexicon . European Journal of Cognitive Psychology , 4 , 311 – 322 .
  • Altarriba , J. , & Mathis , K. M. ( 1997 ). Conceptual and lexical development in second language acquisition . Journal of Memory and Language , 36 , 550 – 568 .
  • Amabile , T. M. ( 1983 ). The social psychology of creativity . New York : Springer-Verlag .
  • Amabile , T. M. ( 1996 ). Creativity in context: Update to “The Social Psychology of Creativity.” Boulder , CO : Westview Press .
  • Anderson , T. W. , & Rubin , H. ( 1949 ). Estimation of the parameters of a single equation in a complete system of stochastic qquations . Annals of Mathematical Statistics , 20 , 46 – 63 .
  • Bialystok , E. ( 2001 ). Bilingualism in development: Language, literacy, and cognition . New York : Cambridge University Press .
  • Bialystok , E. (2005). Consequences of bilingualism for cognitive development. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. de Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 417–432). New York : Oxford University Press.
  • Bialystok , E. ( 2007 , May–June ). Cognitive benefits and linguistic costs of bilingualism across the lifespan. Paper presented at the the 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg, Germany .
  • Bialystok , E. ( 2009 ). Bilingualism: The good, the bad, and the indifferent . Bilingualism: Language, and Cognition , 12 , 3 – 11 .
  • Bialystok , E. , Craik , F. I. M. , Grady , C. , Chau , W. , Ishii , R. , et al. . ( 2005 ). Effect of bilingualism on cognitive control in the Simon task: Evidence from MEG . NeuroImage , 24 , 40 – 49 .
  • Bialystok , E. , Craik , F. I. M. , & Luk , G. ( 2008 ). Cognitive control and lexical access in younger and older bilinguals . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 34 , 859 – 873 .
  • Bialystok , E. , Craik , F. I. M. , & Ryan , J. ( 2006 ). Executive control in a modified antisaccade task: Effects of aging and bilingualism . Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 32 , 1341 – 1354 .
  • Bialystok , E. , & DePape , A.-M. ( 2009 ). Musical expertise, bilingualism, and executive functioning . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 35 , 565 – 574 .
  • Bialystok , E. , & Feng , X. ( 2009 ). Language proficiency and executive control in proactive interference: Evidence from monolingual and bilingual children and adults . Brain and Language , 109 , 93 – 100 .
  • Blumenfeld , H. K. , & Marian , V. ( 2010 ). Bilingualism influences inhibitory control in auditory comprehension . Cognition , 118 , 245 – 257 .
  • Bunge , S. A. , Dudukovic , N. M. , Thomason , M. E. , Vaidya , C. J. , & Gabrieli , J. D. ( 2002 ). Immature frontal lobe contributions to cognitive control in children: Evidence from fMRI . Neuron , 33 , 301 – 311 .
  • Carpenter , P. A. , Just , M. A. , & Shell , P. ( 1990 ). What one intelligence test measures: A theoretical account of the processing in the Raven Progressive Matrices Test . Psychological Review , 97 , 404 – 431 .
  • Carringer , D. C. ( 1974 ). Creative thinking abilities of Mexican youth: The relationship of bilingualism . Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology , 5 , 492 – 504 .
  • Cattell , R. B. ( 1963 ). Theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence: A critical experiment . Journal of Educational Psychology , 54 ( 1 ), 1 – 22 .
  • Cattell , R. B. ( 1973 ). Manual for the Cattell culture fair intelligence test . Champaign , IL : Institute for Personality and Ability Testing .
  • Collins , M. A. , & Amabile , T. M. ( 1999 ). Motivation and creativity . In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 297 – 312 ). New York : Cambridge University Press .
  • Costa , A. , Albareda , B. , & Santesteban , M. ( 2008 ). Assessing the presence of lexical competition across languages: Evidence from the Stroop task . Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 11 , 121 – 131 .
  • Cowan , N. , Fristoe , N. M. , Elliott , E. M. , Brunner , R. P. , & Saults , J. S. ( 2006 ). Scope of attention, control of attention, and intelligence in children and adults . Memory and Cognition , 34 , 1754 – 1768 .
  • Cummins , J. ( 1976 ). The influence of bilingualism on cognitive growth: A synthesis of research findings and explanatory hypothesis . Working Papers on Bilingualism , 9 , 1 – 43 .
  • Cummins , J. , & Gulutsan , M. ( 1974 ). Some effects of bilingualism on cognitive functioning . In S. T. Carey (Ed.), Bilingualism, biculturalism, and education. Proceeding from the Conference at College Universitaire Saint-Jean (pp. 129 – 136 ). Edmonton , Canada : University of Alberta .
  • Dijkstra , T. ( 2005 ). Bilingual visual word recognition and lexical access . In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. de Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 179 – 201 ). New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Duncan , J. ( 1999 ). Attention . In F. C. Keil & R. A. Wilson (Eds.), The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences (pp. 39 – 41 ). Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
  • Duncan , J. , Emslie , H. , Williams , P. , Johnson , R. , & Freer , C. ( 1996 ). Intelligence and the frontal lobe: The organization of goal-directed behavior . Cognitive Psychology , 30 , 257 – 303 .
  • Friedman , N. P. , Miyake , A. , Corley , R. P. , Young , S. E. , Defries , J. C. , & Hewitt , J. K. ( 2006 ). Not all executive functions are related to intelligence . Psychological Science , 17 , 172 – 179 .
  • Garcia , J. H. ( 1996 ). The influences of oral language proficiency and acculturation on the creative thinking of second grade children . Athens , GA : ProQuest Information and Learning .
  • Getzels , J. W. , & Jackson , P. W. ( 1962 ). Creativity and intelligence: Explorations with gifted students . New York : Wiley .
  • Goff , K. , & Torrance , E. P. ( 2002 ). Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults . Bensenville , IL : Scholastic Testing Service .
  • Goral , M. , Levy , E. S. , Obler , L. K. , & Cohen , E. ( 2006 ). Cross-language lexical connections in the mental lexicon: Evidence from a case of trilingual aphasia . Brain and Language , 98 , 235 – 247 .
  • Green , D. W. ( 1998 ). Mental control of the bilingual lexico-semantic system . Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 1 , 67 – 81 .
  • Gruber , S. A. , & Yurgelun-Todd , D. A. ( 2005 ). Neuroimaging of marijuana smokers during inhibitory processing: A pilot investigation . Cognitive Brain Research , 23 , 107 – 118 .
  • Guilford , J. P. ( 1967 ). The nature of human intelligence . New York : McGraw-Hill .
  • Hocevar , D. ( 1981 ). Measurement of creativity: Review and critique . Journal of Personality Assessment , 45 , 450 – 464 .
  • Jacobs , J. F. , & Pierce , M. L. ( 1966 ). Bilingualism and creativity . Elementary English , 40 , 499 – 503 .
  • Kaplan , E. , Goodglass , H. , & Weintraub , S. ( 1983 ). The Boston Naming Test . Philadelphia : Lea & Febiger .
  • Karapetsas , A. , & Andreou , G. ( 1999 ). Cognitive development of fluent and nonfluent bilingual speakers assessed with tachistoscopic techniques . Psychological Reports , 84 , 697 – 700 .
  • Kasof , J. ( 1997 ). Creativity and breadth of attention . Creativity Research Journal , 10 , 303 – 315 .
  • Kavé , G. , Eyal , N. , Shorek , A. , & Cohen-Mansfield , J. ( 2008 ). Multilingualism and cognitive state in the oldest old . Psychology and Aging , 23 , 70 – 78 .
  • Kharkhurin , A. V. ( 2005 ). On the possible relationships between bilingualism, biculturalism and creativity: A cognitive perspective . Unpublished dissertation, City University of New York , New York .
  • Kharkhurin , A. V. ( 2007 ). The role of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural experiences in bilinguals' divergent thinking . In I. Kecskes & L. Albertazzi (Eds.), Cognitive aspects of bilingualism (pp. 175 – 210 ). Dordrecht , the Netherlands : Springer .
  • Kharkhurin , A. V. ( 2008 ). The effect of linguistic proficiency, age of second language acquisition, and length of exposure to a new cultural environment on bilinguals' divergent thinking . Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 11 , 225 – 243 .
  • Kharkhurin , A. V. ( 2009 ). The role of bilingualism in creative performance on divergent thinking and Invented Alien Creatures tests . Journal of Creative Behavior , 43 , 59 – 71 .
  • Kharkhurin , A. V. ( 2010a ). Bilingual verbal and nonverbal creative behavior . International Journal of Bilingualism , 14 , 1 – 16 .
  • Kharkhurin , A. V. ( 2010b ). Sociocultural differences in the relationship between bilingualism and creative potential . Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology , 41 , 776 – 783 .
  • Kharkhurin , A. V. , & Samadpour Motalleebi , S. N. ( 2008 ). The impact of culture on the creative potential of American, Russian, and Iranian college students . Creativity Research Journal , 20 , 404 – 411 .
  • Koestler , A. ( 1964 ). The act of creation . Lewiston , NY : Macmillan .
  • Konaka , K. ( 1997 ). The relationship between degree of bilingualism and gender to divergent thinking ability among native Japanese-speaking children in the New York area . Unpublished dissertation, New York University , New York .
  • Kozbelt , A. , & Durmysheva , Y. (2007). Understanding creativity judgments of invented alien creatures: The roles of invariants and other predictors. Journal of Creative Behavior , 41, 223–248.
  • Kroll , J. F. , & de Groot , A. M. B. ( 1997 ). Lexical and conceptual memory in the bilingual: Mapping form to meaning in two languages . In A. M. B. de Groot & J. F. Kroll (Eds.), Tutorials in bilingualism: Psycholinguistic perspectives (pp. 169 – 199 ). Hillsdale , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates .
  • Kroll , J. F. , & Tokowicz , N. ( 2005 ). Models of bilingual representation and processing: Looking back and to the future . In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. de Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 531 – 533 ). New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Lemhöfer , K. , Dijkstra , T. , & Michel , M. C. ( 2004 ). Three languages, one ECHO: Cognate effects in trilingual word recognition . Language and Cognitive Processes , 19 , 585 – 611 .
  • Lemmon , C. R. , & Goggin , J. P. ( 1989 ). The measurement of bilingualism and its relationship to cognitive ability . Applied Psycholinguistics , 10 , 133 – 155 .
  • Leung , A. K.-Y. , Maddux , W. W. , Galinsky , A. D. , & Chiu , C.-Y. ( 2008 ). Multicultural experience enhances creativity: The when and how . American Psychologist , 63 , 169 – 181 .
  • Lubart , T. I. ( 2000 ). Models of the creative process: Past, present and future . Creativity Research Journal , 13 , 295 – 308 .
  • MacLeod , C. M. ( 1991 ). Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: An integrative review . Psychological Bulletin , 109 , 163 – 203 .
  • Macniven , J. A. B. , Davis , C. , Ho , M. Y. , Bradshaw , C. M. , Szabadi , E. , & Constantinescu , C. S. ( 2008 ). Stroop performance in multiple sclerosis: Information processing, selective attention, or executive functioning? Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , 14 , 805 – 814 .
  • Marsh , R. L. , Landau , J. D. , & Hicks , J. L. ( 1996 ). How examples may (and may not) constrain creativity . Memory and Cognition , 24 , 669 – 680 .
  • Martin-Rhee , M. M. , & Bialystok , E. ( 2008 ). The development of two types of inhibitory control in monolingual and bilingual children . Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 11 , 81 – 93 .
  • Mednick , S. A. , & Mednick , M. T. ( 1967 ). Examiner's manual: Remote Associates Test . Boston : Houghton Mifflin .
  • Meiran , N. ( 1996 ). Is reading ability related to activation dumping speed? Evidence from immediate repetition priming . Memory and Cognition , 24 , 41 – 59 .
  • Mendelsohn , G. A. ( 1976 ). Associative and attentional processes in creative performance . Journal of Personality , 44 , 341 – 369 .
  • Miller , N. A. , & Kroll , J. F. ( 2002 ). Stroop effects in bilingual translation . Memory and Cognition , 30 , 614 – 628 .
  • Mitchell , R. L. C. ( 2005 ). The BOLD response during Stroop task-like inhibition paradigms: Effects of task difficulty and task-relevant modality . Brain and Cognition , 59 , 23 – 37 .
  • Miyake , A. , Friedman , N. P. , Emerson , M. J. , Witzki , A. H. , & Howerter , A. ( 2000 ). The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex ‘frontal lobe’ tasks: A latent variable analysis . Cognitive Psychology , 41 , 49 – 100 .
  • Miyake , A. , Friedman , N. P. , Rettinger , D. A. , Shah , P. , & Hegarty , M. ( 2001 ). How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning, and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , 130 , 621 – 640 .
  • Mumford , M. D. ( 2000 ). Something old, something new: Revising Guilford's conception of creative problem solving . Creativity Research Journal , 13 , 267 – 276 .
  • Mumford , M. D. , Mobley , M. I. , Uhlman , C. E. , Reiter-Palmon , R. , & Doares , L. M. ( 1991 ). Process analytic models of creative capacities . Creativity Research Journal , 4 , 91 – 122 .
  • Niu , W. , & Sternberg , R. J. ( 2001 ). Cultural influences on artistic creativity and its evaluation . International Journal of Psychology , 36 , 225 – 241 .
  • Okoh , N. ( 1980 ). Bilingualism and divergent thinking among Nigerian and Welsh school children . Journal of Social Psychology , 110 , 163 – 170 .
  • Purcell , A. T. , & Gero , J. S. ( 1996 ). Design and other types of fixation . Design Studies , 17 , 363 – 383 .
  • Raven , J. C. ( 1960 ). Standard Progressive Matrices: Sets A, B, C, D, and E . London : H. K. Lewis & Co .
  • Ricciardelli , L. A. ( 1992a ). Bilingualism and cognitive development in relation to threshold theory . Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , 21 , 301 – 316 .
  • Ricciardelli , L. A. ( 1992b ). Creativity and bilingualism . Journal of Creative Behavior , 26 , 242 – 254 .
  • Richards , A. , French , C. C. , Nash , G. , Hadwin , J. A. , & Donnelly , N. ( 2007 ). A comparison of selective attention and facial processing biases in typically developing children who are high and low in self-reported trait anxiety . Development and Psychopathology , 19 , 481 – 495 .
  • Salthouse , T. A. , Atkinson , T. M. , & Berish , D. E. ( 2003 ). Executive functioning as a potential mediator of age-related cognitive decline in normal adults . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , 132 , 566 – 594 .
  • Simon , J. R. , & Rudell , A. P. ( 1967 ). Auditory S-R compatibility: The effect of an irrelevant cue on information processing . Journal of Applied Psychology , 51 , 300 – 304 .
  • Simonton , D. K. ( 2008 ). Bilingualism and creativity . In J. Altarriba & R. R. Heredia (Eds.), An Introduction to bilingualism: Principles and processes (pp. 147 – 166 ). Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates .
  • Smith , S. M. , Ward , T. B. , & Finke , R. A. ( 1995 ). The creative cognition approach . Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
  • Smith , S. M. , Ward , T. B. , & Schumacher , J. S. ( 1993 ). Constraining effects of examples in a creative generations task . Memory and Cognition , 21 , 837 – 845 .
  • Srivastava , A. L. , & Khatoon , R. ( 1980 ). Effect of difference between mother tongue and another tongue as medium of instruction on achievement, mental ability and creativity of the Vll standard children . In E. Annamalai (Ed.), Bilingualism and achievement in schools (pp. 1 – 2 ). Mysore , India : CIIL .
  • Srivastava , B. ( 1991 ). Creativity and linguistic proficiency . Psycho-Lingua , 21 , 105 – 109 .
  • Sternberg , R. J. , & O'Hara , L. A. ( 1999 ). Creativity and intelligence . In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity (pp. 251 – 272 ). New York : Cambridge University Press .
  • Stone , S. ( 1993 ). Divergent thinking: Nontraditional or creative talents of monolingual, bilingual, and special education students in an elementary school . San Diego , CA : ProQuest Information and Learning .
  • Stroop , J. R. ( 1935 ). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions . Journal of Experimental Psychology , 18 , 643 – 662 .
  • Sutton , T. M. , Altarriba , J. , Gianico , J. L. , & Basnight-Brown , D. M. ( 2007 ). The automatic access of emotion: Emotional Stroop effects in Spanish-English bilingual speakers . Cognition and Emotion , 21 , 1077 – 1090 .
  • Thorndike , R. L. , Hagen , E. P. , & Sattler , J. M. ( 1986 ). The Stanford-Binet intelligence scale, 4th edition: Guide for administering and scoring the fourth edition . Chicago : Riverside .
  • Torrance , E. P. ( 1966 ). Torrance test of creative thinking . Princeton , NJ : Personnel Press .
  • Torrance , E. P. , Gowan , J. C. , Wu , J.-J. , & Aliotti , N. C. ( 1970 ). Creative functioning of monolingual and bilingual children in Singapore . Journal of Educational Psychology , 61 , 72 – 75 .
  • Ward , T. B. ( 1994 ). Structured imagination: The role of category structure in exemplar generation . Cognitive Psychology , 27 , 1 – 40 .
  • Ward , T. B. , Patterson , M. J. , & Sifonis , C. M. ( 2004 ). The role of specificity and abstraction in creative idea generation . Creativity Research Journal , 16 , 1 – 9 .
  • Ward , T. B. , Patterson , M. J. , Sifonis , C. M. , Dodds , R. A. , & Saunders , K. N. (2002). The role of graded category structure in imaginative thought. Memory and Cognition , 30, 199–216.
  • Ward , T. B. , Smith , S. M. , & Vaid , J. ( 1997 ). Creative thought: An investigation of conceptual structures and processes . Washington , DC : American Psychological Association .
  • Wechsler , D. ( 1997 ). Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale () , 3rd ed. . San Antonio , TX : Psychological Corporation .
  • Zied , K. M. , Phillipe , A. , Karine , P. , Valerie , H.-T. , Ghislaine , A. , et al. . ( 2004 ). Bilingualism and adult differences in inhibitory mechanisms: Evidence from a bilingual stroop task . Brain and Cognition , 54 , 254 – 256 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.