Inhibitory Control Predicts Grammatical Ability.
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SUBMITTER: Ibbotson P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4682623 | biostudies-literature | 2015
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Inhibitory Control Predicts Grammatical Ability.
Ibbotson Paul P Kearvell-White Jennifer J
PloS one 20151214 12
We present evidence that individual variation in grammatical ability can be predicted by individual variation in inhibitory control. We tested 81 5-year-olds using two classic tests from linguistics and psychology (Past Tense and the Stroop). Inhibitory control was a better predicator of grammatical ability than either vocabulary or age. Our explanation is that giving the correct response in both tests requires using a common cognitive capacity to inhibit unwanted competition. The implications a ...[more]
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