Cross-language intrusion errors in aging bilinguals reveal the link between executive control and language selection

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1155-1164

  Gollan, Tamar H ^a   Sandoval, Tiffany ^b,c   Salmon, David P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c National Center for PTSD   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; attention; bilingualism; frontal lobe; lexical access

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052543314     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611417002     Document Type: Article

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