The efficiency of attentional networks in early and late bilinguals: The role of age of acquisition

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2011, Pages

  Tao, Lily ^a   Marzecová, Anna ^b   Taft, Marcus ^a   Asanowicz, Dariusz ^b   Wodniecka, Zofia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Age of L2 acquisition; Attention network test; Attentional networks; Bilingualism; Lateralization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859773537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00123     Document Type: Article

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