Partially overlapping mechanisms of language and task control in young and older bilinguals

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 959-974

  Weissberger, Gali H ^a   Wierenga, Christina E ^b,c   Bondi, Mark W ^b,c   Gollan, Tamar H ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bilingualism; Executive control; Language switching; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGING; COLOR PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866084809     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028281     Document Type: Article

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