Episodic and semantic memory in bilingual and monolingual children

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-54

  Kormi Nouri, Reza ^a,b   Moniri, Sadegheh ^a   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Action memory; Bilingualism; Children; Episodic memory; Semantic memory; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037606211     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9450.00320     Document Type: Article

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