Objective: to explore whether bilingual experience has an effect on the cognitive inhibition
of the elderly in ethnic minorities. Methods: Flanker lateral inhibition paradigm was used to test the
bilingual elderly and monolingual elderly in yi and han. Results: the conflict adaptation of monolingual
elderly was significantly greater than that of bilingual elderly. Conclusion: the conflict adaptive ability of
yi - han bilingual elderly is better than that of monolingual han elderly, which indicates that bilingualism
has a promoting effect on individual cognitive inhibition.