When the tail counts: The advantage of bilingualism through the ex-Gaussian distribution analysis

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Calabria, Marco ^a   Hernández, Mireia ^b,c   Martin, Clara D ^a   Costa, Albert ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Executive control; RT distribution analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861895814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00250     Document Type: Article

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