Too much of a good thing: Stronger bilingual inhibition leads to larger lag-2 task repetition costs

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Prior, Anat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cognitive control; Executive control; Inhibition; Monitoring; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865304404     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.019     Document Type: Article

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