The effects of first- and second-language proficiency on conflict resolution and goal maintenance in bilinguals: Evidence from reaction time distributional analyses in a Stroop task

Bilingualism

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 663-676

  Tse, Chi Shing ^a   Altarriba, Jeanette ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

attentional control; bilingualism; conflict resolution; goal maintenance; response time distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861840945     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000077     Document Type: Article

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