Components of executive control with advantages for bilingual children in two cultures

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 494-500

  Bialystok, Ellen ^a   Viswanathan, Mythili ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognition and cultural; Cognitive development; Executive function

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CANADA; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CANADA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 68049137309     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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