The impact of bilingualism on working memory in pediatric epilepsy.
The impact of bilingualism on working memory in pediatric epilepsy.
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10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.11.025
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发表时间：
2016-02
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Mucci G
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Veenstra AL;Riley JD;Barrett LE;Muhonen MG;Zupanc M;Romain JE;Lin JJ;Mucci G
执行技能的障碍广泛跨越多种儿童癫痫综合征，并可能对生活质量产生不利影响。双语能力先前已被证明与健康个体的执行功能增强相关。本研究旨在确定是否双语优势，在执行功能存在的背景下，小儿癫痫。我们回顾性分析了52名癫痫儿童的神经心理学数据，并比较了单语与双语癫痫儿童的执行功能评分，同时控制了社会经济地位和种族。双语儿童在工作记忆量表上的表现明显优于单语儿童。其余执行功能变量无显著差异。双语优势似乎持续癫痫儿童的工作记忆。这些研究结果表明，双语是一个潜在的保护变量，在面对癫痫相关的工作记忆功能障碍。
Impairments in executive skills broadly span across multiple childhood epilepsy syndromes and can adversely affect quality of life. Bilingualism has been previously shown to correlate with enhanced executive functioning in healthy individuals. This study seeks to determine whether the bilingual advantage in executive functioning exists in the context of pediatric epilepsy. We retrospectively analyzed neuropsychological data in 52 children with epilepsy and compared executive function scores in monolingual versus bilingual children with epilepsy, while controlling for socioeconomic status and ethnicity. Bilingual children performed significantly better on the Working Memory scale than did monolingual children. There were no significant differences on the remaining executive function variables. The bilingual advantage appears to persist for working memory in children with epilepsy. These findings suggest that bilingualism is potentially a protective variable in the face of epilepsy-related working memory dysfunction.