The effects of bilingualism on toddlers' executive functioning

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 567-579

  Poulin Dubois, Diane ^a   Blaye, Agnes ^b   Coutya, Julie ^a   Bialystok, Ellen ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Concepts; Information processing; Language (bilingual); Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951677873     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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