Speed of processing, anticipation, inhibition and working memory in bilinguals

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 256-269

  Bonifacci, Paola ^a   Giombini, Lucia ^a   Bellocchi, Stéphanie ^a   Contento, Silvana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79954622186     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00974.x     Document Type: Article

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