Adler, Scott A.2017-07-272017-07-272017-03-082017-07-27http://hdl.handle.net/10315/33562Acquiring two languages poses a challenge to bilingual individuals, but the process of switching attention between two languages may equip bilinguals with enhanced cognitive control abilities such as top-down attentional control. In the current study, 6- to 7-month-old monolingually- and bilingually-exposed infants were examined on a task that required the use of top-down attentional control. Using a task called the Visual Expectation Cueing Paradigm (VExCP), infants anticipatory eye movements (EM) were measured to determine if they could override the previously learned cue-target side relation presented during pre-switch and learn the new cue-target side relation in post-switch. Although monolingually- and bilingually-exposed infants showed relatively equal number of correct anticipatory EM initially during post-switch, bilingually-exposed infants, towards the end of the task, outperformed monolingually-exposed infants in exhibiting correct anticipatory EM.enAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Developmental psychologyElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2017-07-27InfancyAttentional switchingVisual expectationsBilingualism