Bilingual Effects on Cognitive and Linguistic Development: Role of Language, Cultural Background, and Education

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 413-422

  Barac, Raluca ^a   Bialystok, Ellen ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CANADA; CHILD; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

ATTENTION; CHILD; COLOR PERCEPTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ONTARIO; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84858168445     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01707.x     Document Type: Article

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